AusTraits

Phaleria clerodendron

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Thymelaeaceae

Taxonomy: Phaleria clerodendron (F.Muell.) Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Drimyspermum clerodendron F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Drymispermum clerodendron F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (17), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (15), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 88 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 26.25 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 45 mm (35-55 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnyyy (2); yyyynnnyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2224.35 mg (797.4-5900 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (18-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8.38 m (3.5-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

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.
Wills_20181515J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011710R. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Wright_200055I. 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.
Gross_200544C. 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_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.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.