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Lophostemon lactifluus

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Lophostemon lactifluus (F.Muell.) Peter G.Wilson & J.T.Waterh.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tristania lactiflora F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Tristania lactiflua F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lawes_2012 (32), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), Prior_2003 (191), Rosell_2014 (8), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (45), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2019 (466). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 88 traits from 813 records in 21 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4616.05 mm2 (1395.16-8369.67 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 122 mm (68-174 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 54.83 mm (13-100 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 563.49 mg (126-953.2 mg) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.25 cm (2-4.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 132.06 g/m2 (90.09-185.19 g/m2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.4 g/g (0.21-0.53 g/g) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.19 g/g (0.07-0.52 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.27 g/g (0.94-1.88 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3); facultative_drought_deciduous (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (1); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.93 mg/g (6.13-34 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.57 mg/g (0.32-1.19 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.52 {delta}[ppth] (-31.24--27.7 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.42 mg (0.05-0.78 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Rosell_2014; Wright_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 13 m (7-15 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_201937466I. J. Wright, J. Cooke, L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, M. C. Scalon, W. C. Tozer, and C. E. R. Lehmann. “Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area”. Austral Ecology 44.2 (2018), pp. 339-350. doi: 10.1111/aec.12678.
Prior_200321191L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Schmidt_20031045S. 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.
Lawes_2012132M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Gross_200544C. 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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.