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Mallotus paniculatus

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Mallotus paniculatus (Lam.) Müll.Arg.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Croton paniculatus Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Mallotus chinensis Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Mallotus cochinchinensis Lour. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Mallotus conchinchinense A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Mallotus tiliifolius (Blume) Müll.Arg. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Kew_2019_1 (7), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (2), Zieminska_2015 (36), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 74 traits from 153 records in 18 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
flower morphology
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.25 cm (0.2-0.3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 10780 mm2 (10780-10780 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 122.5 mm (40-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 75.5 mm (22-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 8 cm (8-8 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 62.42 g/m2 (45.62-71.1 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); rhomboidal (1); triangular (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (8) [sources: ATRP_2020; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 38.91 mg/g (38.91-38.91 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.69 {delta}[ppth] (-30.73--28.66 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.93 mg (6.5-14.8 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.33 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.38 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.44 mg/mm3 (0.4-0.49 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 39.44 {count}/mm2 (10.88-100.05 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 86.52 um (51.8-109.21 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.15 mm2/mm2 (0.1-0.21 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9.33 m (8-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221421L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231515N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131013W. 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.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_20201212A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Kew_2019_117Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Williams_201233P. 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.
Grubb_199622P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_200022I. 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.
ATRP_202011F. 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_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal 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.