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Myrsine variabilis

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Myrsine variabilis R.Br.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Myrsine campanulata F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rapanea campanulata (F.Muell.) Mez (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rapanea sp. (Clifton Beach R.L.Jago 4080) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rapanea variabilis (R.Br.) Mez (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (22), ATRP_2020 (1), Baker_2019 (2), Butler_2004 (5), Campbell_2006 (6), Clarke_2009 (2), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (15), Draper_2023 (3), Falster_2003 (3), Fonseca_2000 (4), Gross_2005 (4), Hughes_1992 (4), Hughes_2005 (5), Ilic_2000 (2), Jagdish_2020 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Kubiak_2009 (4), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (7), McCarthy_2017 (10), Mesaglio_2022 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (9), Pickup_2005 (5), RadfordSmith_2024 (31), Sams_2017 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 76 traits from 237 records in 37 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 (7) [sources: Baker_2019; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Williams_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Leishman_1995; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): blue (2); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1642.55 mm2 (403-3395 mm2) [sources: Falster_2003; Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017; Pickup_2005; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 74.83 mm (30-132 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.72 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 152.66 mg (72.08-217 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.3-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 91.31 g/m2 (56.09-120.49 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017; Pickup_2005; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 7.31 mm2/mg (7.31-7.31 mm2/mg) [sources: Pickup_2005]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.38-0.41 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (2); obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Falster_2003; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 33.6 deg (33.6-33.6 deg) [sources: Falster_2003]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7); tree (10) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (6); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Draper_2023; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; RadfordSmith_2024; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Campbell_2006; Cooper_2013; Draper_2023; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; Sams_2017; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnynnnnn (1); nnnnnnyyynnn (3); nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Campbell_2006]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3); basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Baker_2019; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Williams_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 31.79 mg (27.2-40.78 mg) [sources: Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: Hughes_2005; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Pickup_2005; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Pickup_2005]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 1069 {count}/mm2 (1069-1069 {count}/mm2) [sources: Hughes_2005]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 12 um (12-12 um) [sources: Hughes_2005]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.14 mm2/mm2 (0.14-0.14 mm2/mm2) [sources: Hughes_2005]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241431J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
ABRS_20231522Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231116N. 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/.
Cooper_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NSWFRD_201499B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Jagdish_202027A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
Leishman_199577M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Campbell_200666M. L. Campbell and P. J. Clarke. “Response of montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire- evidence from high and low intensity fires”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127 (2006), pp. 63-73. doi: unknown.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Hughes_200555K. Hughes. “Unpublished data: Wood and stem density data for Australian plant species, Macquarie University”. 2005.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickup_200555M. Pickup, M. Westoby, and A. Basden. “Dry mass costs of deploying leaf area in relation to leaf size”. Functional Ecology 19.1 (2005), pp. 88-97. doi: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00927.x.
Sams_201755M. 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.
Wright_200055I. 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.
Fonseca_200044C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Gross_200544C. 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.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Kubiak_200934P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Falster_200333D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Leaf size and angle vary widely across species: what consequences for light interception?”. New Phytologist 158.3 (2003), pp. 509-525. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00765.x.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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.
Baker_201922A. Baker. “Unpublished data: Post-fire fire-response surveys on the NSW north coast, Southern Cross University”. 2019.
Clarke_200922P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Ilic_200012J. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Mesaglio_202211T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.