AusTraits

Dysoxylum acutangulum

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Dysoxylum acutangulum Miq.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dysoxylum oppositifolium F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Kooyman_2011 (13), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (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 21 traits from 43 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): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 95 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (15-65 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 24 m (4-37 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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_200644A. 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.
NTH_202233D. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202322D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.