AusTraits

Mangifera indica

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Mangifera indica L.

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

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Cooper_2013 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (16), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Roderick_1999 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 83 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 125 mm (100-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (3); yellow (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (2-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 154 g/m2 (154-154 g/m2) [sources: Roderick_1999]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3); whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 21.67 m (20-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231317Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20241316N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_20231114D. 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/.
Cooper_2013910W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Roderick_199922M. L. Roderick, S. L. Berry, and I. R. Noble. “The relationship between leaf composition and morphology at elevated CO2 concentrations”. New Phytologist 143.1 (1999), pp. 63-72. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00438.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.