Cyclophyllum coprosmoides

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Cyclophyllum coprosmoides (F.Muell.) S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Hend.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Canthium coprosmoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Plectronia coprosmoides (F.Muell.) K.Schum. (nomenclatural synonym)
Plectronia coprosmoides (F.Muell.) K.Schum. var. coprosmoides (nomenclatural synonym)
Plectronia coprosmoides var. typica O.Schwarz (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (15), Fonseca_2000 (5), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Leishman_1995 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), RadfordSmith_2024 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 115 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 (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 931.51 mm2 (495.68-1353.6 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (20-125 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 31.43 mm (10-67 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 127.34 mg (74.68-160 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 125.01 g/m2 (117.65-153.88 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.36 g/g (0.34-0.37 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: Butler_2004; Leishman_1995; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (5-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.69-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12.25 m (4-25 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2014_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	14	39	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Cooper_2013	12	15	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	8	10	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Leishman_1995	7	7	M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
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.
Fonseca_2000	5	5	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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_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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	2	2	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.
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.