AusTraits

Ligustrum sinense

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Ligustrum sinense Lour.

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

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Kubiak_2009 (8), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), Mesaglio_2022 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (6), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (19), Sams_2017 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 95 records in 14 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): red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.25 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_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) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1307 mm2 (1307-1307 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.2-0.8 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 76.58 g/m2 (41.56-111.61 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_1995; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); orbicular (1); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); 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 (6); tree (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; 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]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • 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): nnnnnnnnnynn (2); nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1); nnnnnynnnnnn (1); ynnnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22.49 mg (22.48-22.5 mg) [sources: Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.41 mg/mm3 (0.41-0.41 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.5 m (2-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231319VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231316N. 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.
Kubiak_200958P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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.
NSWFRD_201456B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Sams_201766M. 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.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Mesaglio_202213T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
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.
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.