AusTraits

Gymnosporia inermis

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Gymnosporia inermis Merr. & L.M.Perry

Misapplied names: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Celastrus emarginata Jessup (pro parte misapplied)
  • Celastrus emarginatus Willd. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Celastrus montana Jessup (misapplied)
  • Celastrus montanus Roth ex Schult. (misapplied)
  • Gymnosporia montana (Roth ex Schult.) Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Maytenus emarginata (Willd.) Ding Hou (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 58 records in 8 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): 10.5 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 62.5 mm (30-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.75 mm (15-76 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.2-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_woody (1); shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231218Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
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.