AusTraits

Parsonsia paulforsteri

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Parsonsia paulforsteri J.B.Williams

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Parsonsia lenticellata C.T.White (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (21), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (10), Kooyman_2011 (12), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 71 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (60-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 342.29 mm2 (152.75-536.76 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (40-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 11.25 mm (2-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 43.39 g/m2 (37.16-50.94 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.4-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231521Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017315J. 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.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Cooper_2013810W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_202211Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.