Owenia vernicosa

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Family Meliaceae

Taxonomy: Owenia vernicosa F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Owenia capitis-yorkii Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Owenia vernicea C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Owenia vernicosa var. pubescens Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Lawes_2012 (19), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 115 records in 20 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1499 mm2 (1499-1499 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 138.75 mm (50-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
petiole_length (numerical): 11.5 cm (8-15 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 149.16 g/m2 (149.16-149.16 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.18 g/g (0.14-0.21 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Lord_1997; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.98 mg/g (13-14.9 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.22 mg/g (0.22-0.22 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.39 {delta}[ppth] (-28.58--28.08 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5290.44 mg (4874.9-5705.98 mg) [sources: Lord_1997; RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7.17 m (3-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schmidt_2003	11	20	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Lawes_2012	1	19	M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Wright_2008	8	8	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.