AusTraits

Diospyros rugosula

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Family Ebenaceae

Taxonomy: Diospyros rugosula R.Br.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Diospyros bundeyana Kosterm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Diospyros rugulosa A.DC. (orthographic variant)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Diospyros cordifolia Roxb. (misapplied)
  • Diospyros montana Roxb. (misapplied)
  • Diospyros montana f. cordifolia (Roxb.) Hiern (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Clarke_2015 (2), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (12), NTH_2014 (5), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 62 records in 14 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]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 19 mm (19-19 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1); yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 68.75 mm (10-110 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 28.75 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.42 cm (0.15-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; 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]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • 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): 11.75 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.83 m (1-7 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231421D. 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/.
Kooyman_20111012R. 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_201455Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201522P. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.