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Pittosporum rubiginosum

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Pittosporum rubiginosum A.Cunn.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pittosporum callicarpeum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pittosporum rubiginosum A.Cunn. subsp. rubiginosum (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), ANBG_2019 (4), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (10), Cooper_2013 (14), Falster_2005_1 (10), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (121), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 63 traits from 223 records in 14 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): andromonoecious (1); monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (12-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4114.88 mm2 (610.62-9931 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 185 mm (40-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (15-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 68.66 mg (15.74-126.81 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.2-0.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 37.28 g/m2 (25.78-65 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.27 g/g (0.22-0.29 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); flying_vertebrates (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.5 mg/g (14.3-14.7 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -35.05 {delta}[ppth] (-35.45--34.65 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 27.94 mg (27.94-27.94 mg) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.44 mm (5.75-7 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.06 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1); sectoroid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.88 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Falster_2005_1; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 143.77 {count}/mm2 (143.77-143.77 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 21.89 um (21.89-21.89 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.05 mm2/mm2 (0.05-0.05 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.33 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201223121J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
ABRS_20231720Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_20201010A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Falster_2005_1710D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
Sams_201777M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
ANBG_201944Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.