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Planchonella australis

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella australis (R.Br.) Pierre

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Achras australis R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pouteria australis (R.Br.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sapota australis (R.Br.) A.DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia australis (R.Br.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia glabra A.Gray (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sideroxylon australe (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Xantolis australis (R.Br.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Ilic_2000 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (15), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (23), RadfordSmith_2024 (45), Sams_2017 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 140 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 43.75 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 43.75 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 37.5 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3076.64 mm2 (2074.64-4219.15 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (80-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 255.04 mg (197.35-340.45 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.85 cm (0.5-1.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 87.46 g/m2 (68-99.38 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.37 g/g (0.34-0.38 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 957.69 mg (957.69-957.69 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 19.17 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.72-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 35 m (30-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241545J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
NHNSW_20231723N. 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/.
Kooyman_20111115R. 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_20131213W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
McCarthy_2017210J. 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.
Wright_200077I. 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_200455D. 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.
Sams_201755M. 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.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Ilic_200014J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NHNSW_202233N. 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.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.