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Niemeyera chartacea

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Niemeyera chartacea (F.M.Bailey) C.T.White

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amorphospermum chartaceum (F.M.Bailey) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chrysophyllum chartaceum (F.M.Bailey) Vink (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lucuma chartacea F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia baileyana Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), RadfordSmith_2024 (44), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 121 records in 13 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): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 17 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2452.15 mm2 (1359.08-3192.52 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 176.64 mg (116.1-239.2 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 101.94 g/m2 (77.97-150.15 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.44-0.47 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10.38 mm (5-17.5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.63-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241644J. 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.
NHNSW_20231522N. 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_20131013W. 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.
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.
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.
McCarthy_201724J. 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.
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.
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/.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.