Medicosma fareana

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Medicosma fareana (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Euodia fareana F.Muell. (basionym)
Melicope fareana (F.Muell.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 73 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

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.38 mm (5.5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 160 mm (70-280 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 51.25 mm (20-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.35 cm (1-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 60.55 g/m2 (60.55-60.55 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -35.39 {delta}[ppth] (-35.39--35.39 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.63-0.72 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 47.36 {count}/mm2 (47.36-47.36 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 44.23 um (44.23-44.23 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.07 mm2/mm2 (0.07-0.07 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. 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.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_2017	5	5	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Ilic_2000	1	2	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.
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.