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Excoecaria agallocha

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Excoecaria agallocha L.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Excaecaria agallocha F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Excaecaria agallocha var. genuina Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Excoecaria affinis Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Excoecaria agallocha L. var. agallocha (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Excoecaria agallocha var. genuina Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stillingia agallocha (L.) Baill. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NI

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 123 records in 19 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (2); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: Gross_2005; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (4-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (4-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 80.33 mm (13-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.17 cm (1.2-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (2); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 64.31 mg (15.02-113.6 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.34-0.46 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 14.25 m (8-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222128L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231620D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_20231013N. 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/.
Kooyman_2011811R. 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.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
Wright_200044I. 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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.