AusTraits

Polyalthia fruticosa

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Polyalthia fruticosa (Jessup) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Haplostichanthus fruticosus Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Iron Range WWC 287) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Iron Range) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Rocky River Scrub P.I.Forster+ PIF10617) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Rocky River Scrub PIF 10617) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Rocky River Scrub) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. Iron Range (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Haplostichanthus longirostris (Scheff.) Heusden (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 51 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 106.25 mm (45-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 23.75 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.1-0.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnyyy (1); yyyyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011912R. 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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Chen_201711Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.