Premna serratifolia

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Premna serratifolia L.

Synonyms: 17 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cornutia corymbosa Burm.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Gumira attenuata (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Premna corymbosa (Burm.f.) Merr. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna corymbosa (Burm.f.) Rottler (taxonomic synonym)
Premna corymbosa (Burm.f.) Rottler var. corymbosa (taxonomic synonym)
Premna corymbosa var. obtusifolia (R.Br.) H.R.Fletcher (taxonomic synonym)
Premna gaudichaudii Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
Premna glycycocca F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna integrifolia L. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna integrifolia var. obtusifolia (R.Br.) Pei (taxonomic synonym)
Premna media R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna nitida K.Schum. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna obtusifolia R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna obtusifolia R.Br. var. obtusifolia (taxonomic synonym)
Premna obtusifolia var. gaudichaudii (Schauer) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Premna obtusifolia var. serratifolia (L.) Moldenke (nomenclatural synonym)
Premna suavis Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, CoI, ChI, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Brock_1993 (12), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (16), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 117 records in 20 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 15610 mm2 (12020-19200 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 105.83 mm (30-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 75.83 mm (15-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.25 cm (1-3.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 78.3 g/m2 (78.3-78.3 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 26.04 mg/g (26.04-26.04 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.09 {delta}[ppth] (-29.09--29.09 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10.27 mg (1.53-19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.4-0.4 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.75 m (2-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Metcalfe_2009	16	16	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cheesman_2020	12	12	A. 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.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	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.
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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.