Cupaniopsis tomentella

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Cupaniopsis tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) S.T.Reynolds

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cupania serrata var. tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cupania tomentella Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cupania tomentilla Audas (nomenclatural synonym)
Cupaniopsis serrata f. tomentella (Benth.) Radlk. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cupaniopsis serrata var. tomentella (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Domin (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), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 51 records in 9 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): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (40-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 5.25 cm (3.5-7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; 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: ABRS_1981]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]

seed morphology

seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Butler_2004]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	7	9	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.