AusTraits

Pleiogynium timoriense

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Pleiogynium timoriense (DC.) Leenh.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Icica timoriensis DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Owenia cerasifera F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleiogynium cerasiferum (F.Muell.) R.Parker (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleiogynium cerasiferum var. genuinum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleiogynium cerasiferum var. glabratum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleiogynium solandri (Benth.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleiogynium timorense Steenis-Kruseman (orthographic variant)
  • Spondias pleiogyna F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Spondias solandri Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Ilic_2000 (4), Kooyman_2011 (9), McCarthy_2017 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (11), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 105 records in 18 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 23.25 mm (20-28 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 29 mm (20-38 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 29 mm (20-38 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 27665.63 mm2 (27665.63-27665.63 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (40-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 126.34 g/m2 (126.34-126.34 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); attenuate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18 mg (18-18 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.25 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.7-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231218Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221317L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wright_20001011I. 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.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Ilic_200014J. 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.
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.
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.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
McCarthy_201722J. 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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.