Dissotis rotundifolia

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Family Melastomataceae

Taxonomy: Dissotis rotundifolia (Sm.) Triana

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 17 records in 4 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody_base (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ATRP_2020	2	2	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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.