Dischidia major
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Family Apocynaceae
Taxonomy: Dischidia major (Vahl) Merr.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Collyris major Vahl (nomenclatural synonym)
- Dischidia bauerlenii Schltr. (taxonomic synonym)
- Dischidia rafflesiana Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
- Dischidia timorensis Decne. (taxonomic synonym)
- Dischidia timoriensis A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 55 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 55 mm (45-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 44.25 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 21 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.2-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (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_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Stephens_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 13 | 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 12 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 8 | 12 | 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. |
| 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_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |