Pleioluma laurifolia
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Family Sapotaceae
Taxonomy: Pleioluma laurifolia (A.Rich.) Swenson
Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Achras laurifolia (A.Rich.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Beccariella laurifolia (A.Rich.) Aubrév. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Guapeba laurifolia Gomes (taxonomic synonym)
- Planchonella laurifolia (A.Rich.) Pierre (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pouteria laurifolia (Gomes) Radlk. (taxonomic synonym)
- Pouteria richardii (F.Muell.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sersalisia laurifolia A.Rich. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sideroxylon laurifolium (A.Rich.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sideroxylon richardi F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sideroxylon richardii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Planchonella xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.J.Lam (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Ilic_2000 (4), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 44 records in 10 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (14-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1); green (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.75 cm (1-2.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (11-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): fusiform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 16 | 21 | D. 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/. |
| Ilic_2000 | 1 | 4 | 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. |
| NTH_2014 | 4 | 4 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |