Mitrella tiwiensis

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Mitrella tiwiensis Jessup & Bygrave

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Desmos D24170 Melville Island (taxonomic synonym)
Desmos D24710 (taxonomic synonym)
Mitrella D24710 Melville Is. (taxonomic synonym)
Mitrella sp. Melville Island (C.R.Dunlop 6556) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), ATRP_2020 (3), Chen_2017 (1), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), SPRAT_2025_2 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 71 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.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); pink (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (40-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 31.25 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.82 cm (0.3-1.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
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): climber_woody (4); shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: Chen_2017; NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); lenticular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	14	19	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	12	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	10	13	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/.
SPRAT_2025_2	6	7	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
ATRP_2020	3	3	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.
NTH_2014	2	2	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.