Endiandra bessaphila

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Family Lauraceae

Taxonomy: Endiandra bessaphila B.Hyland

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_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Grubb_2008 (3), Kanowski_2000 (67), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (8), Sams_2017 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 146 records in 17 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 31 mm (28-34 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 18 mm (14-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 5180 mm2 (3520-6100 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 117.5 mm (65-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (35-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 143.15 g/m2 (74.07-204.5 g/m2) [sources: Grubb_2008; Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.2 g/g (2.2-2.2 g/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; 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]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnnn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.1 mg/g (14.93-17.21 mg/g) [sources: Grubb_2008; Kanowski_2000]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.13 mg/g (0.76-1.52 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1100 mg (1100-1100 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 25 mm (22-28 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 13 mm (11-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.8 mg/mm3 (0.8-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 35 m (35-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kanowski_2000	23	67	J. 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.
ABRS_2023	11	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	6	8	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.
Sams_2017	7	8	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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_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_1981	3	3	B. 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/.
Grubb_2008	3	3	P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
Wright_2000	3	3	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Grubb_1996	2	2	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.