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Pittosporum angustifolium

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Pittosporum angustifolium Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pittosporum acacioides A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum lanceolatum A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum longifolium Putt. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum phillyraeoides var. microcarpa S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum phillyreoides var. microcarpa S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum phylliraeoides var. microcarpa E.M.Benn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum roeanum Putt. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum salicinum Lindl. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pittosporum phillyreoides DC. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (25), ANBG_2019 (6), ATRP_2020 (1), Barrett_2009 (1), Cheal_2017 (6), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Curtis_2012 (14), Dong_2017 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Dwyer_2018 (6), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (10), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (5), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (19), Nano_2011 (5), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (19), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (75), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 289 records in 37 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): fire_killed (3); partial_resprouting (2); resprouts (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.38 mm (8-21 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 11 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (2); yellow (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 789.71 mm2 (182.46-1259.03 mm2) [sources: Curtis_2012; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 74 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: Curtis_2012; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.06 mm (2-14 mm) [sources: Curtis_2012; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 66.73 mg (38.4-96.7 mg) [sources: Curtis_2012; Staples_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.05 cm (0.5-1.9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 193.19 g/m2 (92.59-291.71 g/m2) [sources: Curtis_2012; Dong_2017; Dwyer_2018; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.39-0.39 g/g) [sources: Curtis_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (3); linear (4); narrowly_elliptical (3); narrowly_obovate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2); revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9); tree (10) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Barrett_2009; Curtis_2012; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Curtis_2012; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnnnyyyyyyn (2); nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2014; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (1); widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.38 mg/g (11.38-11.38 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -25.38 {delta}[ppth] (-25.38--25.38 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.13 mg (11.39-18.4 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.89 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.33 mm (2-2.66 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (3); reniform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Dwyer_2018; Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019375T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
ABRS_20231825Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_20231419D. 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/.
RBGV_20231519VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231316N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Curtis_20121414E. M. Curtis, A. Leigh, and S. Rayburg. “Relationships among leaf traits of Australian arid zone plants: alternative modes of thermal protection”. Australian Journal of Botany 60.6 (2012), pp. 471-483. doi: 10.1071/bt11284.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
Dong_201788N. 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.
ANBG_201956Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Cheal_201766D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Dwyer_201826J. M. Dwyer and R. Mason. “Plant community responses to thinning in densely regenerating Acacia harpophylla forest”. Restoration Ecology 26.1 (2018), pp. 97-105. doi: 10.1111/rec.12536.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Nano_201135C. 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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