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Delarbrea michieana

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Family Myodocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Delarbrea michieana (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Delabrea michieana F.M.Bailey (orthographic variant)
  • Porospermum michieanum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (97), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_2021 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 71 traits from 198 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14 mm (14-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2796.36 mm2 (2403.87-3048.7 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 5903.6 mm2 (4637.6-7757.47 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 382.5 mm (60-1200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 70 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 113.59 mg (100.05-121.07 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 61.3 g/m2 (39.71-116.25 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.28 g/g (0.23-0.31 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); obtuse (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (1); flying_vertebrates (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 135.28 mg (91.1-150 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7 m (5-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122497J. 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_20211824J. 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.
ABRS_20231419Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_201777M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Wright_200055I. 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_200544C. 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_200644A. 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.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.