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Ehretia saligna var. membranifolia

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Family Boraginaceae

Taxonomy: Ehretia saligna var. membranifolia (R.Br.) Randell

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ehretia membranifolia R.Br. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (6), Cooper_2013 (11), Curran_2009 (191), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), RadfordSmith_2024 (41), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 65 traits from 320 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5); pyrene (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 469.97 mm2 (103.33-1074.78 mm2) [sources: Curran_2009; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 78.75 mm (30-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 71.06 mg (56.45-84.4 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 79.7 g/m2 (61.72-92 g/m2) [sources: Curran_2009; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.38 g/g (0.35-0.42 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 56.69 deg (46.67-86.67 deg) [sources: Curran_2009]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Curran_2009; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); drought_deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: Curran_2009; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnyyyyy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.78 mg/mm3 (0.71-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Curran_200910191T. J. Curran, P. J. Clarke, and N. W. M. Warwick. “Water relations of woody plants on contrasting soils during drought: does edaphic compensation account for dry rainforest distribution?”. Australian Journal of Botany 57.8 (2009), pp. 629-639. doi: 10.1071/bt09128.
RadfordSmith_20241541J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231014N. 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/.
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.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Clarke_201536P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
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.