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Pittosporum wingii

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Pittosporum wingii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pittosporum rubiginosum subsp. wingii (F.Muell.) R.C.Cooper (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pittosporum rubiginosum var. wingii L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pittosporum rubiginosum A.Cunn. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 67 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): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (13-21 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10.5 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3636 mm2 (3636-3636 mm2) [sources: Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 66.25 mm (20-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24.25 mm (11-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 60.34 g/m2 (60.34-60.34 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -34.13 {delta}[ppth] (-34.13--34.13 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.67-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8.67 m (8-9 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231519Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
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.
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.