Dodonaea filifolia

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Dodonaea filifolia Hook.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dodonaea acerosa Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (14), ANBG_2019 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Fonseca_2000 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 45 records in 11 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 (1); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 11 mm (9.5-12.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.25 mm (11.5-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 21.6 mm2 (21.6-21.6 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (55-105 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 5 mg (5-5 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 243.9 g/m2 (243.9-243.9 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Fonseca_2000; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.55 mg (2.41-2.68 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.47 mm (2.47-2.47 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 2.11 mm (2.11-2.11 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Fonseca_2000	5	5	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
ANBG_2019	4	4	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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_1981	2	2	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.