Desmos polycarpus
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Family Annonaceae
Taxonomy: Desmos polycarpus Jessup
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Desmos sp. (Mossman River L.W.Jessup 550) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 43 records in 9 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): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (70-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 36.25 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.4-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (2); shrub (2); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 7.62 mm (6.5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 14 | 19 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 8 | 9 | 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_1981 | 2 | 2 | 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Chen_2017 | 1 | 1 | 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |