AusTraits

Elaeocarpus elliffii

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Elaeocarpus elliffii B.Hyland & Coode

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Kanowski_2000 (66), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), SinghRamesh_2019 (34), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 136 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): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (10-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • 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]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1446.67 mm2 (1160-1720 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75 mm (60-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 111.04 g/m2 (108.11-115.47 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.54 mg/g (9-17.21 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; SinghRamesh_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.6 mg/g (0.37-0.71 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; SinghRamesh_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.65 {delta}[ppth] (-30.1--29.2 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: SinghRamesh_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 36 m (36-36 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_20002266J. 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.
SinghRamesh_20191734A. S. Ramesh and A. W. C. &. L. Cernusak. Far North Queensland, Montane Tree Leaf Chemistry Data, 2019. Version 1. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network.. 2019. doi: 10.25901/e1yb-ea83.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from 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.