Myrmecodia beccarii
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Myrmecodia beccarii Hook.f.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Epidendroides tetrandra Britten (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (10), SPRAT_2025_2 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 37 records in 6 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (10-90 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 29.5 mm (14-45 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; SPRAT_2025_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- storage_organ (categorical): tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 10 | 12 | 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 8 | 10 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 8 | 8 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |