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Dendrotrophe varians

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Family Santalaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrotrophe varians (Blume) Miq.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Henslowia queenslandiae L.S.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Henslowia varians Blume (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (2), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 69 records in 10 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.22 cm (0.2-0.25 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.83 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (11-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (1); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • parasitic (categorical): stem_parasitic (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222022L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_20231011Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011811R. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ATRP_202022F. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.