Maranthes corymbosa

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Family Chrysobalanaceae

Taxonomy: Maranthes corymbosa Blume

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Parinari corymbosum (Blume) Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Parinari griffithiana Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Parinarium griffithianum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (4), Kooyman_2011 (11), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 122 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 30.25 mm (19-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.75 mm (10-34 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 130.17 mm (45-176 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 49.33 mm (16-70 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.57 cm (0.45-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.46 g/g (0.46-0.46 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); oblique (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyynnn (1); nnnyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg/g (11-11 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.3 {delta}[ppth] (-30.3--30.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 38.5 mm (35-42 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 13 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.81 mg/mm3 (0.76-0.87 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 22.5 m (10-25 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	18	22	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023	12	17	D. 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_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Schmidt_2003	11	14	S. 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.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011	9	11	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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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.
Ilic_2000	1	4	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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_2006	4	4	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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.