Cynometra iripa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Cynometra iripa Kostel.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cynometra ramiflora var. bijuga (Span. ex Miq.) Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 92 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 33.5 mm (25-48 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 21 mm (9-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.3-0.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6720 mg (6720-6720 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 27 mm (25-29 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7.33 m (6-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	11	15	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	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	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.
NTH_2023	8	8	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
Kew_2019_3	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.