AusTraits

Myristica globosa

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Family Myristicaceae

Taxonomy: Myristica globosa Warb.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2015 (48), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lusk_2012 (10), Rosell_2014 (8), Rumman_2018 (4), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Weerasinghe_2014 (87), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 252 records in 15 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
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5907.66 mm2 (4631.2-8618.36 mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 129.48 mm (70-210 mm) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 53.71 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 107.18 g/m2 (60.24-140 g/m2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Lusk_2012; Sams_2017; Weerasinghe_2014; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 6.82 mm2/mg (6.82-6.82 mm2/mg) [sources: Lusk_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.41 g/g (0.36-0.46 g/g) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Rumman_2018]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Rumman_2018; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 21.66 mg/g (18.69-24.32 mg/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.13 mg/g (0.9-1.44 mg/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.05 {delta}[ppth] (-32--30.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Rumman_2018]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 16 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.41-0.52 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Rosell_2014; Sams_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 22.04 {count}/mm2 (4.74-59.71 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 74.84 um (13.3-140.34 um) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Lusk_2012; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.09 mm2/mm2 (0.06-0.13 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2015; Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Weerasinghe_20141887L. K. Weerasinghe, D. Creek, K. Y. Crous, S. Xiang, M. J. Liddell, M. H. Turnbull, and O. K. Atkin. “Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland”. Tree Physiology 34.6 (2014), pp. 564-584. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu016.
Apgaua_20151248D. M. G. Apgaua, F. Y. Ishida, D. Y. P. Tng, M. J. Laidlaw, R. M. Santos, R. Rumman, D. Eamus, J. A. M. Holtum, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Functional traits and water transport strategies in lowland tropical rainforest trees”. PLoS One 10.6 (2015), p. e0130799. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130799.
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Lusk_2012610C. H. Lusk, J. W. G. Kelly, and S. M. Gleason. “Light requirements of Australian tropical vs. cool-temperate rainforest tree species show different relationships with seedling growth and functional traits”. Annals of Botany 111 (2012), pp. 479-488. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs289.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Sams_201777M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Rumman_201844R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
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.
Ilic_200013J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Williams_201233P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
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.