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Dysoxylum arborescens

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Dysoxylum arborescens (Blume) Miq.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alliaria arborescens (Blume) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Alliaria nernstii (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dysoxylon nernstii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dysoxylum nernstii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goniocheton arborescens Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichilia arborescens (Blume) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (2), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 108 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); hermaphrodite (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): pink (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 6100 mm2 (6100-6100 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 164.38 mm (50-450 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 7 cm (7-7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 98.88 g/m2 (72.76-121.8 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19.64 mg/g (19.64-19.64 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.08 {delta}[ppth] (-32.08--32.08 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 18.33 mm (12-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 110.39 {count}/mm2 (77.73-146.32 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 37.43 um (33.43-40.71 um) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.12 mm2/mm2 (0.09-0.19 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 23.33 m (20-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
ABRS_20231317Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. 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.
Cheesman_20201212A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_200022I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.