AusTraits

Denhamia megacarpa

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Denhamia megacarpa J.J.Halford & Jessup

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Denhamia sp. (Junee Tableland T.J.McDonald 553) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Denhamia sp. Junee Tableland (T.J.McDonald 553) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 17 records in 4 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 550 mm (550-550 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 550 mm (550-550 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (9-16 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_2810F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.