Chionanthus ramiflorus

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chionanthus picrophloia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Chionanthus ramiflora Roxb. (orthographic variant)
Linociera picrophloia (F.Muell.) Knobl. (taxonomic synonym)
Linociera picrophloia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Linociera ramiflora (Roxb.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Mayepea picrophloia (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Mayepea ramiflora (Roxb.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (native and naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheesman_2020 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (8), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (116), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (29), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), Zieminska_2013 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 87 traits from 259 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Metcalfe_2009; Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (18-27 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 7115.75 mm2 (1755.25-11880 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; McCarthy_2017; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Westoby_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (50-220 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 432.61 mg (79.33-724.95 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 105.37 g/m2 (45.2-134.4 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; McCarthy_2017; Wells_2012; Westoby_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.41 g/g (0.27-0.45 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.61 mg/g (11.74-17.48 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Westoby_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.1 mg/g (1.1-1.1 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.11 {delta}[ppth] (-31.67--28.56 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 364.67 mg (148.98-509.71 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 15.5 mm (15-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.75 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Zanne_2009; Zieminska_2013]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 155.62 {count}/mm2 (110.52-185.23 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 35.33 um (30.57-39.81 um) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.15 mm2/mm2 (0.13-0.18 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	116	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Zieminska_2013	10	30	K. Ziemińska, D. W. Butler, S. M. Gleason, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms”. AoB PLANTS 5 (2013), p. plt046. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt046.
Westoby_2014	29	29	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. 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.
Cheesman_2020	8	8	A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
McCarthy_2017	2	8	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.