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Citronella smythii

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Family Icacinaceae

Taxonomy: Citronella smythii (F.Muell.) R.A.Howard

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chariessa smythii (F.Muell.) Becc. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Villaresia adenophylla Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Villaresia smythii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Apgaua_2017 (12), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Sams_2017 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (136), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (75), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 71 traits from 301 records in 17 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): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5217.4 mm2 (2654.07-8410.71 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 165 mm (110-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 76.25 mm (40-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 319.91 mg (140.79-574.63 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.7-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 65.29 g/m2 (48.92-78.77 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.29 g/g (0.28-0.32 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; Cooper_2013; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.47 mg/g (15-22.46 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.93 mg/g (0.77-1.13 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -37.08 {delta}[ppth] (-37.08--37.08 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 310 mg (310-310 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.37-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 22.04 {count}/mm2 (22.04-22.04 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 62.43 um (62.43-62.43 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.07 mm2/mm2 (0.07-0.07 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20.75 m (8-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222136J. 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.
Wills_20181575J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
ABRS_20231421Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
Ilic_200015J. 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.
Sams_201755M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_200022I. 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.
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_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.