Dysoxylum klanderi

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Dysoxylum klanderi F.Muell.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alliaria klanderi (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Dysoxylon klanderi F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Dysoxylum ptychocarpa W.E.Cooper (taxonomic synonym)
Dysoxylum ptychocarpum (F.Muell.) Radlk. (taxonomic synonym)
Schleichera ptychocarpa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 70 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 (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 45 mm (35-55 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 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): brown (1); pink (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 260 mm (40-900 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 67.5 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 7.5 cm (5-10 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (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; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; 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]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2600 mg (2600-2600 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
seed_length (numerical): 19.67 mm (18-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 11.25 mm (7-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.69-0.81 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 35 m (35-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	20	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	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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_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.
Grubb_1996	3	3	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	2	2	I. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.