Niemeyera whitei

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Niemeyera whitei (Aubrév.) Jessup

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Amorphospermum whitei Aubrév. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Kooyman_2011 (14), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (23), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 78 records in 11 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (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]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 29.17 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 31.25 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); globoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.69-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (20-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	15	23	N. 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_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. 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.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
Wright_2000	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.