AusTraits

Celastrus australis

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Celastrus australis Harv. & F.Muell.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Celastrus subspicatus Hook. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (23), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (8), Kooyman_2011 (7), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2016 (1), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (18), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 67 traits from 157 records in 18 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (2); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (3-6.5 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.6 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.58 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1050 mm2 (1050-1050 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 71.25 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.3-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); falcate (3); lanceolate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): cam (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (3); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (3); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.64 mm (3-4.2 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231623Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231623VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221821L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231318N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Chen_201788Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Kooyman_201167R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
NHNSW_202255N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
NHNSW_201611National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.