Ceriops australis
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Family Rhizophoraceae
Taxonomy: Ceriops australis (C.T.White) Ballment, T.J.Sm. & J.A.Stoddart
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ceriops tagal var. australis C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B.Rob. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), Santini_2013 (76), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 95 records in 7 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 26 mm (14-38 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1.2-2.8 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): viviparous (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1600 mg (1600-1600 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.59-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Santini_2013]
- stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 23.18 um (20.04-27.11 um) [sources: Santini_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santini_2013 | 4 | 76 | N. S. Santini, N. Schmitz, V. Bennion, and C. E. Lovelock. “The anatomical basis of the link between density and mechanical strength in mangrove branches”. Functional Plant Biology 40.4 (2013), pp. 400-408. doi: 10.1071/fp12204. |
| NTH_2023 | 7 | 10 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | A. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |