Fontainea venosa

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Fontainea venosa Jessup & Guymer

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Fontainea sp. Bahrs Scrub (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Baloghia pancheri Baill. (misapplied)
Fontainea pancheri (Baill.) Heckel (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 60 records in 9 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_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3157.76 mm2 (2478.68-4311.09 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 71.12 g/m2 (62.44-80.49 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.63 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	18	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
McCarthy_2017	3	15	J. 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.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. 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.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. 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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	1	1	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.