AusTraits

Finlaysonia obovata

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Finlaysonia obovata Wall.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Cooper_2013 (7), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 55 records in 8 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_diameter (numerical): 1.5 cm (1.5-1.5 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; 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_length (numerical): 82.5 mm (40-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38 mm (16-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.35 cm (0.7-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202279L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_201367W. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.