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Corynocarpus cribbianus

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Family Corynocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Corynocarpus cribbianus (F.M.Bailey) L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Corynocarpus australasicus C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyanocarpus cribbiana F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Helicia cribbiana (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (6), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (8), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (115), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 62 traits from 203 records in 16 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): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 35.83 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); drupe (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): pink (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4393.06 mm2 (2800.93-7874.68 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (40-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 436.41 mg (143.17-631.08 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 92.18 g/m2 (43.14-121.83 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.35 g/g (0.21-0.39 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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): bats (1); birds (1); cassowaries (2); mammals (2); non-flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8250 mg (5500-11000 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 29 mm (23-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 29 mm (23-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.59 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222115J. 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.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221516L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_201168R. 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_201766Chen, 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.
Sams_201766M. 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.
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.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Ilic_200012J. 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_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from 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.