Polyalthia hispida

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Polyalthia hispida B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Haplostichanthus longirostris (Scheff.) Heusden (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus rufescens Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. 'Johnstone River' (L.W.Jessup+ 471) (taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. (=RFK/3016) (taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. (Johnstone River L.W.Jessup+ 471) (taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. (Johnstone River LWJ 471) (taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. (RFK/3016) (taxonomic synonym)
Haplostichanthus sp. Johnstone River (doubtful taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (118), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 176 records in 12 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): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2397.62 mm2 (964.01-3501.21 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (60-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 33.75 mm (15-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 124.25 mg (39.79-185.87 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.25 cm (0.1-0.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 49.19 g/m2 (40.53-55.86 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.33 g/g (0.31-0.36 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (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 (3); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8.67 m (7-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	118	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.
ABRS_2023	11	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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/.
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.
Chen_2017	1	1	Chen, 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.