AusTraits

Planchonella eerwah

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella eerwah (F.M.Bailey) P.Royen

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pouteria eerwah (F.M.Bailey) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia eerwah (F.M.Bailey) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sideroxylon eerwah F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (6), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 38 records in 8 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3360.8 mm2 (3360.8-3360.8 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (40-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 48.5 mm (27-70 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 122.03 g/m2 (122.03-122.03 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 12 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.56-0.56 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (15-25 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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_201366W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
McCarthy_201733J. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202233L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.