Palaquium galactoxylon

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Palaquium galactoxylon (F.Muell.) H.J.Lam

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bassia galactodendron F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Bassia galactoxyla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Galactoxylon pierrei Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
Lucuma galactoxyla W.E.Cooper (nomenclatural synonym)
Lucuma galactoxylon (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Palaquium galactoxylon (F.Muell.) H.J.Lam var. galactoxylon (nomenclatural synonym)
Palaquium galactoxylum H.J.Lam (orthographic variant)
Sersalisia galactoxylon (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheesman_2020 (23), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lusk_2012 (10), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zieminska_2015 (24), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 76 traits from 140 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 21 mm (12-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4460 mm2 (2510-5760 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (60-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 89.05 g/m2 (34.5-149.8 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Lusk_2012; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 4.77 mm2/mg (4.77-4.77 mm2/mg) [sources: Lusk_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 21.82 mg/g (17.65-26 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.94 {delta}[ppth] (-34.09--31.79 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1200 mg (1200-1200 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (9-14 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.52 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 55.35 {count}/mm2 (46.24-64.47 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 32.85 um (10.9-52.83 um) [sources: Lusk_2012; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.11 mm2/mm2 (0.08-0.14 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Zieminska_2015	12	24	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	19	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cheesman_2020	12	23	A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
Lusk_2012	6	10	C. H. Lusk, J. W. G. Kelly, and S. M. Gleason. “Light requirements of Australian tropical vs. cool-temperate rainforest tree species show different relationships with seedling growth and functional traits”. Annals of Botany 111 (2012), pp. 479-488. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs289.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.