Maesa dependens

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Maesa dependens F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Maesa dependens F.Muell. var. dependens (nomenclatural synonym)
Maesa dependens var. pubescens F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Maesa muelleri Mez (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (24), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (24), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 110 records in 12 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: Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

flower_diameter (numerical): 0.28 cm (0.25-0.3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); gynodioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (2.5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 103.5 mm (40-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 53.83 mm (20-97 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.2-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (3); shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.43 mg (0.43-0.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	9	24	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	24	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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	18	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	15	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. 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.