AusTraits

Gardenia ovularis

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Gardenia ovularis F.M.Bailey

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kanowski_2000 (23), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Richards_2003 (86), Richards_2008 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 59 traits from 160 records in 12 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); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 29 mm (20-38 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4960 mm2 (4960-4960 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 155 mm (50-260 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 81.58 g/m2 (59.52-103.63 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; 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
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Richards_2008]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Richards_2008; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Richards_2008]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Richards_2003]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.85 mg/g (14-16 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.66 mg/g (0.55-0.75 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.54 {delta}[ppth] (-32.98--31.91 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Richards_2003; Richards_2008]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1 mg (1-1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.7 mg/mm3 (0.67-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 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.
Kanowski_20002323J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.