Pleioluma brownlessiana

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Pleioluma brownlessiana (F.Muell.) Swenson & Munzinger

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)

Achras brownlessiana F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Achras ralphiana Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
Beccariella brownlessiana (F.Muell.) Swenson, Bartish & Munzinger (nomenclatural synonym)
Iteiluma ralphiana (F.Muell.) Aubrév. (taxonomic synonym)
Planchonella brownlessiana (F.Muell.) P.Royen (nomenclatural synonym)
Planchonella ralphiana Dubard (taxonomic synonym)
Pouteria brachyloba (Domin) Baehni (taxonomic synonym)
Pouteria brownlessiana (F.Muell.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
Sersalisia brachyloba Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Sersalisia brownlessiana (F.Muell.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Sersalisia ralphiana Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
Sideroxylon brachylobum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Sideroxylon brownlessiana (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kanowski_2000 (45), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 90 records in 9 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): 32 mm (32-32 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3270 mm2 (2700-3840 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 117.5 mm (65-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 33 mm (20-46 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 92.82 g/m2 (83.33-105.15 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017]
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): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.07 mg/g (12.89-15.25 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.91 mg/g (0.82-1.01 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 17.25 mm (15-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kanowski_2000	23	45	J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_2017	6	6	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
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.