Melicope bonwickii

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Melicope bonwickii (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Euodia bonwickii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (72), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 137 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): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); follicle (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]

leaf morphology

leaflet_area (numerical): 10865.62 mm2 (5961.35-18973.52 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 97.5 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 6.25 cm (3-9.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 116.56 g/m2 (103.85-129.02 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.36 g/g (0.34-0.37 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4.25 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); globoid (1); hemispheric (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.41 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 34.67 m (32-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	72	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
Zanne_2009	1	2	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.
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.