Harpullia frutescens

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Harpullia frutescens F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Harpullia holoptera Radlk. (taxonomic synonym)
Harpullia marginata Radlk. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Harpullia alata F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (118), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 176 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3057.36 mm2 (3057.36-3057.36 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaflet_area (numerical): 2449.18 mm2 (1524.62-4106.55 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 161.25 mm (75-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 48.75 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 132.11 mg (132.11-132.11 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 6 cm (3.5-8.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 39.34 g/m2 (33.98-49.52 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.31 g/g (0.26-0.37 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 78.31 mg (78.31-78.31 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.57 mg/mm3 (0.48-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.67 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	25	118	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
ABRS_2023	12	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	11	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.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.