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Elaeocarpus arnhemicus

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Elaeocarpus arnhemica F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Elaeocarpus obovatus var. foveolatus Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 96 records in 18 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.92 mm (8.2-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 9.5 mm (6.5-12.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; 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): blue (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 81.17 mm (30-125 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.5 mm (10-55 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.3-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (7) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14 mg/g (14-14 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.55 {delta}[ppth] (-30.55--30.55 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 467.84 mg (467.84-467.84 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 23.75 m (5-35 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Schmidt_200377S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
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.
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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
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).
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.
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.
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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.