Melicope hayesii

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Melicope hayesii T.G.Hartley

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

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Benwell_2024 (4), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (14), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (4), RadfordSmith_2024 (45), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 142 records in 17 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); follicle (3); mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3611.76 mm2 (2135.81-5460.44 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaflet_area (numerical): 1159.84 mm2 (832.12-1474.74 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 63.5 mm (32-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 26 mm (12-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 71 mg (48.33-87.98 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.88 cm (1.5-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 68.89 g/m2 (39.56-127.25 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.28 g/g (0.26-0.32 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (2); attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Clarke_2009; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 15.7 mg (10.4-24.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; McCarthy_2017]
seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.49 mg/mm3 (0.33-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15.33 m (10-18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	17	45	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
ABRS_2023	13	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	12	15	N. 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/.
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.
McCarthy_2017	4	14	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Sams_2017	7	7	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.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NSWFRD_2014	4	4	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
Clarke_2009	2	3	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.