AusTraits

Planchonella nitida

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella nitida Dubard

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chrysophyllum sundaicum Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pouteria nitida (Dubard) Teo (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sideroxylon nitidum Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sideroxylon sundaicum (Miq.) Burck (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): ChI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 19 records in 4 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): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (50-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

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ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.