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Planchonia careya

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Family Lecythidaceae

Taxonomy: Planchonia careya (F.Muell.) R.Knuth

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Barringtonia careya F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Careya arborea var. australis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Careya australis F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Careya australis F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Careya australis F.Muell. ex F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cumbia australis Britten (taxonomic synonym)
  • Planchonia australis Beard (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Planchonia crenata Miers (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Careya arborea Roxb. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Eamus_1998 (15), Eamus_1999 (10), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Myers_1997 (28), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (2), Prior_2003 (202), Rice_1991 (1), Rosell_2014 (8), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (59), Schulze_1998 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (80), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (1), Wright_2019 (391), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 144 traits from 964 records in 35 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 (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 73.33 mm (50-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 33.5 mm (20-37 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 27.5 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4843.07 mm2 (2614.58-8989.67 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 98.12 mm (25-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 59.38 mm (20-115 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 577.78 mg (414.4-721.6 mg) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.75 cm (0.5-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 108.6 g/m2 (78.11-232.56 g/m2) [sources: Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Schulze_1998; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.48 g/g (0.48-0.48 g/g) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.03-0.42 g/g) [sources: Myers_1997; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.92 g/g (1.38-2.36 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (1); orbicular (1); spathulate (2); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (7) [sources: Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Munroe_2019; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (17) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (10); evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; Myers_1997; NTH_2014; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (7) [sources: Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): vertebrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); mammals (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnyyyynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.71 mg/g (4.04-20.35 mg/g) [sources: Eamus_1998; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.95 mg/g (0.4-1.31 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.37 {delta}[ppth] (-28.72--25.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 104.8 mg (104.8-104.8 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (5-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.31-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Rosell_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_201937391I. J. Wright, J. Cooke, L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, M. C. Scalon, W. C. Tozer, and C. E. R. Lehmann. “Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area”. Austral Ecology 44.2 (2018), pp. 339-350. doi: 10.1111/aec.12678.
Prior_200321202L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Westoby_20143380S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
Schmidt_20031159S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Myers_1997828B. A. Myers, G. A. Duff, D. Eamus, I. R. Fordyce, A. O'Grady, and R. J. Williams. “Seasonal Variation in Water Relations of Trees of Differing Leaf Phenology in a Wet - Dry Tropical Savanna near Darwin, Northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany 45.2 (1997), p. 225. doi: 10.1071/bt96015.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222224L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231518Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231116D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Eamus_19981515D. Eamus and H. Prichard. “A cost-benefit analysis of leaves of four Australian savanna species”. Tree Physiology 18 (1998), pp. 537-545. doi: 10.1093/treephys/18.8-9.537.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Schulze_1998813E. -. Schulze, R. J. Williams, G. D. Farquhar, W. Schulze, J. Langridge, J. M. Miller, and B. H. Walker. “Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25.4 (1998), pp. 413-425. doi: 10.1071/PP97113.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Eamus_19991010D. Eamus, B. Myers, G. Duff, and D. Williams. “Seasonal changes in photosynthesis of eight savanna tree species”. Tree Physiology 19 (1999), pp. 665-671. doi: 10.1093/treephys/19.10.665.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Gross_200544C. 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.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.