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Excoecaria dallachyana

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Excoecaria dallachyana (Baill.) Benth.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Excaecaria agallocha var. dallachyana Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Excaecaria dallachyana Benth. (orthographic variant)
  • Excoecaria agallocha var. dallachyana Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Excoecaria dallachyana (Baill.) Benth. f. dallachyana (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Excoecaria dallachyana f. tenuispica Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), RadfordSmith_2024 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 115 records in 14 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 (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 794.86 mm2 (517.6-998.12 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 56.25 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24 mm (6-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 82.44 mg (74.15-96.58 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 72.87 g/m2 (49.51-106.94 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.38 g/g (0.32-0.41 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); barochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-4.5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241439J. 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.
NHNSW_20231116N. 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/.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
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/.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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.
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.
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.