Dysoxylum pumilum

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Dysoxylum pumilum Mabb.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dysoxylum sp. 'Gosschalk' (B.Gray 786) (taxonomic synonym)
Dysoxylum sp. (Gosschalk B.Gray 786) (taxonomic synonym)
Dysoxylum sp. (Gosschalk LA BG 786) (taxonomic synonym)
Dysoxylum sp. (Gosschalk) (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), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 70 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): dioecious (3); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 51.5 mm (40-63 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 52.5 mm (45-60 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 201.25 mm (80-340 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 83.75 mm (40-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 8.75 cm (7.5-10 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 36.67 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1); hemispheric (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	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	9	13	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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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_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.
White_2020	4	4	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.