Notelaea ovata

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Family Oleaceae

Taxonomy: Notelaea ovata R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Notelaea longifolia var. ovata (R.Br.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (1), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (20), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 54 records in 9 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 (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1346.95 mm2 (1105.14-1562.9 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (20-140 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 36 mm (12-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.1-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 195.68 g/m2 (158.22-252.36 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: 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]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.64 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	14	20	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/.
McCarthy_2017	3	15	J. 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_2014	6	6	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.
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.
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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	1	1	P. 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.