Melicytus angustifolius
Explore the data for this taxon in the portal
Family Violaceae
Taxonomy: Melicytus angustifolius (DC.) Garn.-Jones
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hymenanthera angustifolia DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Hymenanthera dentata var. angustifolia (DC.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): SA, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Draper_2023 (3), Lawson_2015 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 47 records in 10 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1); grey (1); white (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (2) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.54 mg/mm3) [sources: Lawson_2015]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.15 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 15 | 16 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| ABRS_2023 | 8 | 13 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 2 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Lawson_2015 | 1 | 1 | J. R. Lawson, K. A. Fryirs, and M. R. Leishman. “Data from: Hydrological conditions explain wood density in riparian plants of south-eastern Australia”. Dryad Digital Repository (2015). doi: 10.5061/dryad.72h45. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |