AusTraits

Embelia grayi

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Embelia grayi S.T.Reynolds

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (66), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 125 records in 10 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): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): pink (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2052.5 mm2 (1543.2-2450.67 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 67 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.75 mm (25-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 69.87 mg (42.38-94.89 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.35 cm (1-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 34.22 g/m2 (24.82-47.09 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.21 g/g (0.16-0.24 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (5); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): butterfly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.44-0.56 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122266J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
ABRS_20231420Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gallagher_201233R. 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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.