Petalostigma banksii

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Family Picrodendraceae

Taxonomy: Petalostigma banksii Britten & S.Moore

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (15), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (19), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (29), Wright_2008 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 69 traits from 125 records in 19 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_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13.75 mm (9-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 597 mm2 (350-844 mm2) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 22.25 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.2-0.9 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 162.09 g/m2 (142.1-183.28 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; Wright_2008]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); yyyyyynnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
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): 8.91 mg/g (6.6-10.41 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.34 mg/g (0.27-0.42 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.62 {delta}[ppth] (-29.62--26.97 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 23.53 mg (23.53-23.53 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.33 m (4-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2014	29	29	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
NTH_2023	14	19	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Dong_2017	8	15	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	11	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.
Wright_2008	9	9	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.