Pilidiostigma rhytispermum
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Pilidiostigma rhytispermum (F.Muell.) Burret
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Myrtus rhytisperma F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Myrtus rhytisperma F.Muell. var. rhytisperma (nomenclatural synonym)
- Myrtus rhytispermum N.Snow (nomenclatural synonym)
- Philidiostigma rhytispermum K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)
- Pilidiostigma rhytisperma Burret (orthographic variant)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 55 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): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 146.05 mm2 (109.93-183.74 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 70.71 g/m2 (59.57-78.27 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
- dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 51.51 mg (37.5-65.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCarthy_2017 | 3 | 15 | J. 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_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. |
| Wright_2000 | 10 | 10 | 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. |
| Butler_2004 | 5 | 5 | D. 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_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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 2 | 3 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |