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Dysoxylum mollissimum

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Dysoxylum mollissimum (Spreng.) Blume ex G.Don

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alliaria zippeliana Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dysoxylum forsteri C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichilia mollissima Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 66 records in 10 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 18.75 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 152.5 mm (30-450 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38.75 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 8.5 cm (5-12 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.51-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 35 m (35-35 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231422N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Zanne_200913A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.
Ilic_200012J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.