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Diospyros laurina

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Family Ebenaceae

Taxonomy: Diospyros laurina (R.Br.) Jessup

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Diospyros cupulosa (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Diospyros ferrea f. laurina (R.Br.) Bakh. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Diospyros sericocarpa (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Diospyros seriocarpa A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ebenus laurina (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Maba cupulosa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Maba laurina R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Maba sericocarpa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Maba rufa Labill. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 46 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
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 18.5 mm (10-27 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (65-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 131.94 g/m2 (131.94-131.94 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 54 mg (54-54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 13 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.84 mg/mm3 (0.84-0.84 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Sams_201766M. 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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.