Pomaderris apetala

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Family Rhamnaceae

Taxonomy: Pomaderris apetala Labill.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pomaderris scabra Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Pomaderris tainui Hector (taxonomic synonym)
Pomatoderris apetala Schult. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Bloomfield_2018 (218), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Harrison_2009 (14), Jordan_2001 (6), Jordan_2007 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Prior_2022 (36), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (8), Richards_2008 (3), Rumman_2018 (3), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 84 traits from 347 records in 21 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): fire_killed (12); partial_resprouting (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Prior_2022; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); mericarp (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1981.27 mm2 (1301-2591.81 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (110-110 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 109.51 g/m2 (85.4-158.21 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Harrison_2009; Jordan_2007; Tng_2013]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.51 g/g (0.48-0.55 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Harrison_2009; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Rumman_2018; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Jordan_2007]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3); epicormic_buds (4); none (9) [sources: Clarke_2015; Prior_2022]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.78 mg/g (10.82-20.39 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Harrison_2009; Richards_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.92 mg/g (0.18-1.3 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Richards_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.35 {delta}[ppth] (-32.03--22.2 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Harrison_2009; Rumman_2018; Tng_2013]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 7.74 umol{CO2}/m2/s (1.06-12.4 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.07 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.01-0.13 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 92.56 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (9-262.4 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.91 mg (0.69-1.13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 2.36 mm (2.36-2.36 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.47 mm (0.47-0.47 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Bloomfield_2018	24	218	K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
Prior_2022	3	36	L. D. Prior, S. M. Foyster, J. M. Furlaud, G. J. Williamson, and D. M. Bowman. “Using permanent forest plots to evaluate the resilience to fire of Tasmania's tall wet eucalypt forests”. Forest Ecology and Management 505 (2022), p. 119922. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119922.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Harrison_2009	13	14	M. T. Harrison, E. J. Edwards, G. D. Farquhar, A. B. Nicotra, and J. R. Evans. “Nitrogen in cell walls of sclerophyllous leaves accounts for little of the variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency”. Plant, Cell and Environment 32 (2009), pp. 259-270. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01918.x.
Jordan_2007	8	8	G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
RBGV_2023	8	8	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Jordan_2001	6	6	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Tng_2013	6	6	D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Mokany_2015	3	3	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Richards_2008	3	3	A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Rumman_2018	3	3	R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.