AusTraits

Cyclophyllum multiflorum

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Cyclophyllum multiflorum S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Hend.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Canthium sp. (Kuranda G.Sankowsky+ 680) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Canthium sp. (Kuranda) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 47 records in 6 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4680 mm2 (4680-4680 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (45-130 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 80 mg (80-80 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.71 mg/mm3 (0.71-0.71 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_20091818E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.