Irvingbaileya australis

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Family Icacinaceae

Taxonomy: Irvingbaileya australis (C.T.White) R.A.Howard

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Irvingbaileya australia R.A.Howard (orthographic variant)
Medusanthera australis (C.T.White) R.A.Howard (nomenclatural synonym)
Tylecarpus australis C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)

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

Apodytes brachystylis F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), Sams_2017 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (61), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (31), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (39). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 79 traits from 197 records in 16 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

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.24 cm (0.2-0.27 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 23 mm (21-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 19 mm (18-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3482.28 mm2 (2563.45-4683.21 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (90-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 239.65 mg (204.88-357.24 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.3 cm (1-1.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 72.53 g/m2 (58.84-83.61 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.33 g/g (0.31-0.35 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (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): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): bats (2); birds (2); cassowaries (2); flying_vertebrates (1); mammals (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 220 mg (220-220 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 22 mm (20-24 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.41-0.43 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	21	61	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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	31	39	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_2021	27	31	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
ABRS_2023	13	16	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	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	7	9	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.
Sams_2017	5	5	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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_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.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. 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_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.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.