Planchonella obovata

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonella obovata (R.Br.) Pierre

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Achras obovata (R.Br.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pouteria obovata (R.Br.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
Sapota obovata (R.Br.) Radlk. ex Holle (nomenclatural synonym)
Sersalisia obovata R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Sideroxylon brownii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Sideroxylon obovatum (R.Br.) Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sideroxylon argenteum Thunb. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (55-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (30-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	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.
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.