Gardenia fucata
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Gardenia fucata R.Br. ex Benth.
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: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 52 records in 13 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (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): 6017.5 mm2 (2511-9524 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
- leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 154.74 g/m2 (145.65-163.84 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.5 mg/g (10.5-12.5 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.55 mg/g (0.47-0.62 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.94 mg (6.94-6.94 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3.5 m (3-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright_2008 | 8 | 15 | I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008. |
| Brock_1993 | 9 | 12 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |