Logania recurva

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Family Loganiaceae

Taxonomy: Logania recurva J.M.Black

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Logania longifolia var. subsessilis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), Draper_2023 (4), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (5), SAH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 75 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Draper_2023; SAH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 33.75 mm (20-51 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (2-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1); revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1); endozoochory (1); zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.21 mg (0.21-0.21 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.85 m (0.4-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023	15	19	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	12	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022	5	5	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
Draper_2023	4	4	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.