AusTraits

Planchonella myrsinifolia

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella myrsinifolia (F.Muell.) Swenson, Bartish & Munzinger

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Achras myrsinoides A.Cunn. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Planchonella myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) S.T.Blake ex W.D.Francis (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pouteria myrsinifolia (F.Muell.) Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pouteria myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Baehni (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sapota myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Radlk. ex Holle (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sarsalisia myrsinifolia F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia myrsinifolia F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sersalisia myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sideroxylon myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Xantolis myrsinoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Baehni (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (15), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (23), RadfordSmith_2024 (44), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 105 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 21.25 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15.5 mm (6-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1482.57 mm2 (745.24-2030.26 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 39.5 mm (8-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 99.74 mg (80.18-113.42 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.2-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 96.44 g/m2 (84.87-116.5 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.52 g/g (0.46-0.55 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); rounded (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): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 14.67 mm (8-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (4-12.5 mm) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.89 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241644J. 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/.
Cooper_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
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/.
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.