AusTraits

Erythroxylum sp. Splityard Creek (L.Pedley 5360)

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Family Erythroxylaceae

Taxonomy: Erythroxylum sp. Splityard Creek (L.Pedley 5360) Qld Herbarium

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erythroxylum sp. (Splityard Creek L.Pedley 5360) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erythroxylum australe F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), Kooyman_2011 (13), RadfordSmith_2024 (47), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 80 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 276.74 mm2 (202.22-335.35 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (6-18 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 25.44 mg (22-27.98 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 94.12 g/m2 (79.07-126.33 g/m2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.37-0.48 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.86 mg/mm3 (0.83-0.88 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241547J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
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.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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_201522P. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.