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Muellerina celastroides

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Muellerina celastroides (Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Tiegh.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amyema maytenifolia (A.Gray) Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrophthoe celastroides (Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Mart. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hookerella tenuiflora (Hook.f.) Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus celastroides Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Loranthus celastroides Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f. var. celastroides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Loranthus celastroides var. typicus Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Loranthus maytenifolius A.Gray (taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus raoulii Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus tenuiflorus Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Muellerina raoulii (Tiegh.) Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Phrygilanthus celastroides (Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Eichler (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Phrygilanthus raoulii (Tiegh.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Phrygilanthus tenuiflorus (Hook.f.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (4), Gosper_2004 (2), Hughes_1992 (4), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (6), NHNSW_2023 (13), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 114 records in 17 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): green (1); red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (3); red (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.12 mm (25-70 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 23.12 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.3-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (3); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1); terrestrial (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): parasitic (2); stem_parasitic (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1); vertebrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (3) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231216VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023913N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_202277L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
NHNSW_202266N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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_198122B. 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/.
Gosper_200412C. R. Gosper. “Fruit characteristics of invasive bitou bush, Chrysanthemoides monilifera (Asteraceae), and a comparison with co-occurring native plant species”. Australian Journal of Botany 52.2 (2004), pp. 223-230. doi: 10.1071/bt03046.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.