Pleioluma xerocarpa

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Family Sapotaceae

Taxonomy: Pleioluma xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Swenson

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Achras xerocarpa F.Muell. ex Benth. (basionym)
Beccariella xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Aubrév. (nomenclatural synonym)
Planchonella xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) H.J.Lam (nomenclatural synonym)
Pouteria xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
Sersalisia xerocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Sideroxylon xerocarpum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Schmidt_2003 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (179), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (30), Wright_2000 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 75 traits from 307 records in 13 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 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18.5 mm (15-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3207.3 mm2 (1686.19-5280 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (55-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 202.74 mg (92.2-321.4 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 77.66 g/m2 (50.22-95.49 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012; Wills_2018; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.37 g/g (0.31-0.43 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.46 mg/g (12.46-22.47 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.34 mg/g (0.93-1.74 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.58 {delta}[ppth] (-31.58--31.58 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 82 mg (82-82 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 14 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.52 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 145.89 {count}/mm2 (137.4-159.22 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 32.49 um (29.65-33.95 um) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.12 mm2/mm2 (0.11-0.13 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	179	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Zieminska_2015	12	36	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Wills_2018	15	30	J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
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.
Ilic_2000	1	2	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.
Schmidt_2003	2	2	S. 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.
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.