Diospyros littorea

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Family Ebenaceae

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

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diospyros ferrea f. lamponga (Miq.) Bakh. (taxonomic synonym)
Diospyros ferrea var. littorea (R.Br.) Bakh. (nomenclatural synonym)
Maba buxifolia var. littorea (R.Br.) Hiern (nomenclatural synonym)
Maba lamponga Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Maba littorea R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diospyros ferrea f. laurina (R.Br.) Bakh. (pro parte misapplied)
Maba buxifolia (Rottb.) Pers. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (10), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 61 records in 13 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (14-14 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (35-95 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.4-0.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1); nnnnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); sectoroid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 11.67 m (5-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	15	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/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	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.
NTH_2014	4	4	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.
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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.