Coelospermum reticulatum

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Coelospermum reticulatum (F.Muell.) Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Caelospermum reticulatum J.T.Johanss. (orthographic variant)
Pogonolobus reticulatus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (22), White_2020 (20), Wright_2008 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 97 records in 15 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 (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2001.5 mm2 (1791-2212 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (50-90 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 122.6 g/m2 (110.31-134.9 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Lord_1997; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020; Wright_2008]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (1); yynnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (2); epicormic_buds (1); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.05 mg/g (8.6-13.1 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 mg/g (0.38-0.61 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.13 {delta}[ppth] (-28.13--28.13 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 44.86 mg (36.2-53.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.36 mg/mm3 (0.36-0.37 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2014	22	22	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.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Wright_2008	9	17	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Brock_1993	8	10	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Draper_2023	4	4	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-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/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.