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Melodinus baccellianus

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) S.T.Blake

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melodinus bacellianus S.T.Blake (orthographic variant)
  • Melodinus murpe F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichostemanthemum bacellianum Leeuwenb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichostomanthemum baccellianum (F.Muell.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Wrightia baccelliana F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 67 records in 9 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): 56.75 mm (50-72 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 36.25 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 130 mm (40-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.2-0.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); obtriangular (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (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): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; 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): butterfly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231620Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wells_20121111J. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.