AusTraits

Polyalthia xanthocarpa

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Family Annonaceae

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

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Haplostichanthus ramiflorus Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Cooper Creek BG 2433) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Cooper Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. (Coopers Creek B.Gray 2433) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. 1 (Coopers Creek; B.Gray 2433) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haplostichanthus sp. Cooper Creek (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), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (34), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Falster_2005_1 (9), Kooyman_2011 (13), Rosell_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 151 records in 14 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): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 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_area (numerical): 5649.17 mm2 (4685-7670 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 210 mm (80-280 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 48.75 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.2-0.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 63.66 g/m2 (55.61-72 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); 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 (5); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; 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): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1); yyyyynnyyyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 21.51 mg/g (18.52-22.41 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -34.53 {delta}[ppth] (-35.13--33.09 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (9-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (9-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.64 mg/mm3 (0.56-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Falster_2005_1; Rosell_2014; Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 77.27 {count}/mm2 (48.56-151.14 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 30.61 um (24.46-42.49 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.05 mm2/mm2 (0.04-0.07 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.33 m (3-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Zieminska_20151236K. 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.
Cheesman_20201234A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
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_20111013R. 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.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Falster_2005_169D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
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.