Planchonella chartacea

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella chartacea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.J.Lam

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Achras chartacea F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Beccariella chartacea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Aubrév. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pouteria chartacea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
Sersalisia chartacea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Sideroxylon chartaceum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Planchonella linggensis (Burck) Pierre (misapplied)
Planchonella linggensis (Burck) Pierre var. linggensis (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (15), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (2), Metcalfe_2009 (18), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 97 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18.5 mm (15-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 14.25 mm (5-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 18.5 mm (15-22 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 5249.4 mm2 (4228.79-6270 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 117.5 mm (40-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 35.25 mm (16-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 85.45 g/m2 (85.45-85.45 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1); obovate (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_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1500 mg (1500-1500 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 13.33 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.72 mg/mm3 (0.7-0.74 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	15	22	N. 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/.
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	12	15	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. 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_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.
Ilic_2000	1	3	J. 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_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
McCarthy_2017	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.