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Elaeodendron australe var. australe

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Elaeodendron australe Vent. var. australe

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassine australis (Vent.) Kuntze var. australis (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), ANBG_2019 (1), ATRP_2020 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (12), NSWFRD_2014 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 55 records in 12 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
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 19 mm (14-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; NSWFRD_2014; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16 mg (16-16 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.67-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9 m (8-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011912R. 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.
NSWFRD_201477B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.