Miliusa brahei

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Saccopetalum brahei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Brock_1993 (12), Chen_2017 (1), Clarke_2015 (2), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (9), Lawes_2012 (16), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (14). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 134 records in 24 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (9-27 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (40-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 28.12 mm (10-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.1-0.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1); obtuse (2); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (3); evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; WAH_1998]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (2); yyyynnnnnnyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 8.83 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20.83 m (10-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lawes_2012	1	16	M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
NTH_2023	10	15	D. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	14	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011	9	9	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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Chen_2017	1	1	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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.