Cossinia australiana

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Cossinia australiana S.T.Reynolds

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cossinia sp. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (6), Cooper_2013 (4), Kooyman_2011 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 75 records in 12 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]
flower_diameter (numerical): 1.1 cm (1-1.2 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (15-18 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.75 cm (1.2-4.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7.5 m (7-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	19	Australian 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_2022	17	18	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kooyman_2011	8	11	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.
Chen_2017	6	6	Chen, 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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	4	4	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Wright_2000	4	4	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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/.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.