AusTraits

Ligustrum lucidum

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton

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

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cheal_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Fonseca_2000 (4), Kubiak_2009 (3), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), Sams_2017 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 87 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.75 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sams_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Sams_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); blue (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3797.55 mm2 (2795.1-4800 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.47 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 233 mg (233-233 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 77.78 g/m2 (66.75-83.33 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_ovate (2); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.39 mg (21.38-21.4 mg) [sources: Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.45 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.45 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10.75 m (3-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231518N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
RBGV_20231114VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Leishman_199588M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Sams_201777M. 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.
Cheal_201744D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Fonseca_200044C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kubiak_200933P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.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.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.