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Ceriops tagal

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Family Rhizophoraceae

Taxonomy: Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B.Rob.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bruguiera arnottiana Arn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bruguiera arnottiana Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bruguiera timoriensis Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops candolleana Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops candolliana Arn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops mossambicensis Klotzsch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B.Rob. var. tagal (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ceriops timorensis A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops timoriensis (DC.) C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ceriops timoriensis (DC.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rhizophora tagal Perr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rhizophora timorensis Decne. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rhizophora timoriensis DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), Brock_1993 (10), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (10), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 110 records in 19 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20.75 mm (15-28 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 74.38 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 34 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1.5-2.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (2); ovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): viviparous (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3025 mg (1400-4650 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 235 mm (120-350 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.88 mg/mm3 (0.88-0.88 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9.5 m (2-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222226L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023812D. 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/.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_2013910W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Ilic_200013J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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/.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.