AusTraits

Chisocheton longistipitatus

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Chisocheton longistipitatus (F.M.Bailey) L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Castanospora longistipitata F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rhetinosperma longistipitatum (F.M.Bailey) Radlk. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (68), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 146 records in 14 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 6630.73 mm2 (5330.9-8116.5 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 337.5 mm (90-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 85.5 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 247.16 mg (170.7-323.62 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 36.88 g/m2 (32.02-39.87 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.23 g/g (0.22-0.24 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3600 mg (3600-3600 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 28.75 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.21-0.49 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 39.67 m (39-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122368J. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221318L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Gross_200544C. 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_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.
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.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_200011J. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.
Wright_200011I. 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.