Prumnopitys amara

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Prumnopitys amara (Blume) de Laub.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Nageia amara (Blume) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Podocarpus amara Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
Podocarpus amarus Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
Podocarpus pedunculata F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Podocarpus pedunculatus F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Stachycarpus amara Gaussen (taxonomic synonym)
Stachycarpus amara Woltz & Rouane (taxonomic synonym)
Sundacarpus amara C.N.Page (nomenclatural synonym)
Sundacarpus amarus (Blume) C.N.Page (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (2), Cooper_2013 (13), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lemmens_1994 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 47 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 905.5 mg (511-1300 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 17 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.38 mg/mm3 (0.36-0.43 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Lemmens_1994; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 31.67 m (25-35 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_1981	9	11	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/.
Kooyman_2011	9	10	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.
Ilic_2000	1	3	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Chen_2017	2	2	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Lemmens_1994	1	1	R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.