Diospyros compacta

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Family Ebenaceae

Taxonomy: Diospyros compacta (R.Br.) Kosterm.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diospyros ferrea var. compacta (R.Br.) Fosberg (nomenclatural synonym)
Diospyros ferrea var. reticulata (R.Br.) Bakh. (taxonomic synonym)
Diospyros sp. (Mt White P.I.Forster PIF14415) (taxonomic synonym)
Diospyros sp. (Mt White PIF 14415) (taxonomic synonym)
Diospyros sp. (Mt White) (taxonomic synonym)
Diospyros sp. Mt White (P.I.Forster 14415) CHAH (taxonomic synonym)
Ebenus compacta (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Ebenus reticulata (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Maba compacta R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Maba interstans F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Maba reticulata R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (27), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (8), Kooyman_2011 (22), NTH_2014 (6), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 113 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10.25 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 9.25 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (7) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 54.17 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 23.5 mm (8-50 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.4-0.6 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (8) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6.62 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8.67 m (4-11 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	11	27	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	22	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.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_2023	11	12	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Gross_2005	4	8	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	8	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.
NTH_2014	5	6	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.