Davidsonia pruriens

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Family Cunoniaceae

Taxonomy: Davidsonia pruriens F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Davidsonia pruriens F.Muell. var. pruriens (nomenclatural synonym)
Davidsonia pungens Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
Davidsonia pungens Rafarin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (145), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 75 traits from 232 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (30-55 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 39 mm (32-46 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 44160 mm2 (44160-44160 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaflet_area (numerical): 7411.86 mm2 (1917.45-16687.27 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 255 mm (50-460 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 92.5 mm (25-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 64.04 g/m2 (37.74-90.41 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.34-0.47 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1); wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (2); cassowaries (2); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 520 mg (440-600 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.79 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 18 m (18-18 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	145	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
eFLOWER_2021	24	30	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. 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_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.