Embelia australiana

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Embelia australiana (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Choripetalum australianum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Ribesiodes australiana (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Ribesiodes australianum Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Samara australiana (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Gallagher_2012 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), McCarthy_2017 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2016 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 103 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 (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7.83 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (5-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.25 mm (5-9.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); purple (2); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2560 mm2 (2560-2560 mm2) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 68.5 mm (26-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 35.33 mm (12-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.7 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 78.31 g/m2 (78.31-78.31 g/m2) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_ovate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (4); climber_woody (3); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; NHNSW_2016]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); root_crown (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 90.85 mg (90.85-90.85 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 5.83 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	14	20	N. 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/.
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. 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.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. 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.
Gallagher_2012	5	5	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
McCarthy_2017	1	1	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2016	1	1	National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.