AusTraits

Mezoneuron erythrocarpum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Mezoneuron erythrocarpum (Pedley) R.Clark & Gagnon

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caesalpinia erythrocarpa Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Caesalpinia sp. (Claude River B.P.Hyland 6401) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (7), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 60 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 44.17 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 25.83 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyynnnn (1); nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231120Australian 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.
Chen_201777Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
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.