AusTraits

Erythroxylum sp. Brewer LA (B.Hyland 13373)

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Family Erythroxylaceae

Taxonomy: Erythroxylum sp. Brewer LA (B.Hyland 13373) Qld Herbarium

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erythroxylum sp. (Brewer LA B.Hyland 13373) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erythroxylum ecarinatum Burck ex Hochr. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (120), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 145 records in 7 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_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1629.45 mm2 (1018.01-2838.85 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 97.5 mm (55-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32 mm (18-46 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 88.12 mg (32.66-256.46 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 50.01 g/m2 (32.09-129.13 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.29 g/g (0.24-0.45 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.46-0.87 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222120J. 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.
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.
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.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.