AusTraits

Polyosma sp. (=RFK/2524)

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Family Escalloniaceae

Taxonomy:

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (3), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 24 records in 4 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_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (35-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. 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_200544C. 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_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.
Cooper_201333W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.