Gillbeea whypallana

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Family Cunoniaceae

Taxonomy: Gillbeea whypallana Rozefelds & Pellow

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2017 (12), Bloomfield_2018 (156), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (13), Rosell_2014 (8), Rumman_2018 (4), Weerasinghe_2014 (87), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 78 traits from 343 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (12-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (11-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): samara (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3930 mm2 (3930-3930 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (50-220 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 75 mm (35-115 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 133.65 g/m2 (97-173.09 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Cheesman_2020; Weerasinghe_2014; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.39-0.47 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Weerasinghe_2014]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Rumman_2018]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Rumman_2018; 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]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.83 mg/g (10.12-21.34 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Cheesman_2020; Weerasinghe_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.57 mg/g (0.23-0.69 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Weerasinghe_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.4 {delta}[ppth] (-33.04--30.51 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Rumman_2018]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 24.3 umol{CO2}/m2/s (20.09-27.87 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.17 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.12-0.21 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 404.84 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (62.3-1696.1 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.35-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Rosell_2014; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 152.14 {count}/mm2 (109.94-256.46 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 40.51 um (33.36-44.79 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.19 mm2/mm2 (0.14-0.24 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Bloomfield_2018	24	156	K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
Weerasinghe_2014	18	87	L. K. Weerasinghe, D. Creek, K. Y. Crous, S. Xiang, M. J. Liddell, M. H. Turnbull, and O. K. Atkin. “Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland”. Tree Physiology 34.6 (2014), pp. 564-584. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu016.
Zieminska_2015	12	36	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
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.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_2020	12	12	A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Rosell_2014	8	8	J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Rumman_2018	4	4	R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.