Mezoneuron nitens

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Mezoneuron nitens (F.Muell. ex Benth.) R.Clark & Gagnon

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Caesalpinia nitens (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Caesalpinia sp. (Mt Moorooreerai A.R.Bean 6709) (taxonomic synonym)
Cantuffa nitens (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterolobium nitens F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), ATRP_2020 (2), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (2), Kooyman_2011 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 34 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_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 17 mm (7-27 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (5-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.25 cm (1-3.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): widely_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (4); shrub (4) [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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	7	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	6	8	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.
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.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. 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.
Cooper_2013	2	2	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.