Neolamarckia cadamba
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Nauclea cadamba Roxb. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Anthocephalus chinensis (Lam.) A.Rich. ex Walp. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (14). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 48 records in 8 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): dioecious (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 245 mm (130-360 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 130 mm (80-180 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 40 mg (40-40 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 14 | 14 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 12 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Gross_2005 | 4 | 4 | C. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |
| Wright_2000 | 1 | 1 | I. 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. |