Lophopetalum arnhemicum

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Lophopetalum arnhemicum Byrnes

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Brock_1993 (13), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (10), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 100 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (60-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 93.33 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.85 cm (0.5-1.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.05 g/g (0.05-0.05 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
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 (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17 mg/g (17-17 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.77 {delta}[ppth] (-30.77--30.77 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 28.38 mm (5-37.5 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7.83 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 13.17 m (8-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schmidt_2003	11	14	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Brock_1993	10	13	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	12	12	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	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.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.