AusTraits

Mackinlaya confusa

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Mackinlaya confusa Hemsl.

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Kooyman_2011 (13), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wells_2012 (107), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 162 records in 8 datasets.

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

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (6-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2278.65 mm2 (2278.65-2278.65 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 3800.6 mm2 (1836.11-4873.16 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 155 mm (100-210 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 95 mm (50-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 80.19 mg (80.19-80.19 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 41.12 g/m2 (31.64-45.51 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.16 g/g (0.13-0.19 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 19.47 mg (19.47-19.47 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.48 mg/mm3 (0.36-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201224107J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
eFLOWER_20211621J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.