AusTraits

Gynochthodes retropila

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Gynochthodes retropila (Halford & A.J.Ford) Razafim. & B.Bremer

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gen. (AQ124851) sp. (Boonjie L.J.Webb+ 6837A) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gen. (Aq124851) sp. (Boonjie L.J.Webb+ 6837A) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Morinda retropila Halford & A.J.Ford (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Morinda sp. 1 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Morinda sp. Boonjee (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rubiaceae Gen. nov. sp. (Boonjee) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Morinda hypotephra F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 28 records in 5 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26 mm (12-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.