AusTraits

Elaeocarpus angustifolius

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Elaeocarpus angustifolius Blume

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Apgaua_2015 (48), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (34), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Ilic_2000 (4), Kanowski_2000 (114), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Lemmens_1994 (1), Lusk_2012 (10), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), Richards_2008 (14), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stewart_1995 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 79 traits from 310 records in 25 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
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 19 mm (15-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19 mm (15-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 19 mm (15-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1); purple (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3441.27 mm2 (2119.58-4360 mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Cheesman_2020; Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 111.86 mm (60-180 mm) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 34.54 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 95.88 g/m2 (36.85-139.4 g/m2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Cheesman_2020; Kanowski_2000; Lusk_2012; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 11.99 mm2/mg (11.99-11.99 mm2/mg) [sources: Lusk_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.43 g/g (0.39-0.44 g/g) [sources: Apgaua_2015]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (2) [sources: Richards_2008; Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Richards_2008]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Richards_2008; Stewart_1995]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (9) [sources: ATRP_2020; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Richards_2008; Stewart_1995; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Richards_2008; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Richards_2008; Stewart_1995]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 20.84 mg/g (13.79-25.6 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Kanowski_2000; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.64 mg/g (1.28-2.1 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.49 {delta}[ppth] (-36.35--28.38 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Richards_2008; Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2285.5 mg (61-4510 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 13 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.43 mg/mm3 (0.33-0.54 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Lemmens_1994; Zanne_2009]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 7.97 {count}/mm2 (7.53-8.71 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 87.69 um (20.2-136.14 um) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Lusk_2012]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.09 mm2/mm2 (0.06-0.11 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 37.5 m (35-40 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_200023114J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
Apgaua_20151248D. M. G. Apgaua, F. Y. Ishida, D. Y. P. Tng, M. J. Laidlaw, R. M. Santos, R. Rumman, D. Eamus, J. A. M. Holtum, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Functional traits and water transport strategies in lowland tropical rainforest trees”. PLoS One 10.6 (2015), p. e0130799. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130799.
Cheesman_20201234A. 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.
NTH_20231218D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Richards_20081414A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Lusk_2012610C. H. Lusk, J. W. G. Kelly, and S. M. Gleason. “Light requirements of Australian tropical vs. cool-temperate rainforest tree species show different relationships with seedling growth and functional traits”. Annals of Botany 111 (2012), pp. 479-488. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs289.
Stewart_199568G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
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.
Ilic_200014J. 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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Grubb_199622P. 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.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Zanne_200912A. 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.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lemmens_199411R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.