AusTraits

Gardenia actinocarpa

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Gardenia actinocarpa Puttock

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gardenia sp. 'Oliver Creek' (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gardenia sp. 'Oliver Creek' (L.J.Webb & J.G.Tracey 10826) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gardenia sp. 'Oliver Creek' (L.J.Webb & J.G.Tracey 10828) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), Richards_2003 (86), Richards_2008 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 130 records in 7 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 37 mm (28-46 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (18-32 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 170 mm (70-270 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 44.84 g/m2 (44.84-44.84 g/m2) [sources: Richards_2008]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Richards_2008]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Richards_2008]
life history
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.12 mg/g (12-21 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.59 mg/g (0.51-0.74 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -33.33 {delta}[ppth] (-33.65--33 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Richards_20032386A. Richards, A. Shapcott, J. Playford, B. Morrison, C. Critchley, and S. Schmidt. “Physiological profiles of restricted endemic plants and their widespread congenors in the North Queensland wet tropics, Australia”. Biological Conservation 111 (2003), pp. 41-52. doi: 10.1016/s0006-3207(02)00245-8.
Cooper_20131013W. 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.
Richards_20081111A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
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.
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.