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Flueggea virosa

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Flueggea virosa (Willd.) Voigt

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acidoton obovatus (Willd.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Phyllanthus virosus Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Securinega abyssinica A.Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Securinega obovata (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Securinega virosa (Willd.) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Xylophylla obovata Willd. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Dong_2017 (22), Kew_2019_1 (10), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kew_2019_5 (2), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 59 traits from 130 records in 18 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): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (2-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 68.5 mm (15-125 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38.83 mm (12-63 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.82 cm (0.35-1.3 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 150.76 g/m2 (145.32-158.73 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (3) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1); yynyyyyyyyyy (1); yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.71 mg/g (14.01-22.68 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.7 {delta}[ppth] (-28.57--26.36 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.15 mg (1.86-4.69 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.88 m (1-5 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Dong_2017822N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221719L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231417D. 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.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Kew_2019_1110Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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_512Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.