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Ochna serrulata

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Family Ochnaceae

Taxonomy: Ochna serrulata (Hochst.) Walp.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Diporidium serrulatum Hochst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Baker_2019 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), Fonseca_2000 (9), Kubiak_2009 (3), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), McCarthy_2017 (5), Mesaglio_2022 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 86 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 620.93 mm2 (326-1005.5 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 46.25 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.68 mm (7-19.2 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 38.5 mg (25-52 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.15 cm (0.1-0.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 49.57 g/m2 (47.39-52.08 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); nnnnnnnnynnn (1); nnnnnnnynnnn (1); nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Mesaglio_2022]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: Baker_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 83.78 mg (83.76-83.8 mg) [sources: Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.58-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.38 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231216N. 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_20131011W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Fonseca_200059C. 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.
Leishman_199588M. 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.
McCarthy_201715J. 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.
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.
Kubiak_200923P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Mesaglio_202213T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
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/.
Baker_201922A. Baker. “Unpublished data: Post-fire fire-response surveys on the NSW north coast, Southern Cross University”. 2019.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.