AusTraits

Lepiderema ixiocarpa

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Lepiderema ixiocarpa S.T.Reynolds

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 60 records in 9 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): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15.25 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14.75 mm (13-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; 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]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7 m (7-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231521Australian 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_2011710R. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.