AusTraits

Melodinus forbesii

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Melodinus forbesii Fawc.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melodinus landolphioides Lauterb. & K.Schum. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Neowollastonia tabernaemontanoides Wernham (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Kooyman_2011 (13), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 90 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 1.05 cm (0.8-1.3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 49.5 mm (40-62 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 50.75 mm (43-62 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 48 mm (43-53 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3); syncarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (45-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.3-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (4); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231622D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231316Australian 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221013L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013810W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.