AusTraits

Psidium cattleyanum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Psidium cattleyanum Sabine

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Psidium cattleianum Sabine (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), Wells_2012 (119), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 149 records in 7 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): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.56-0.74 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.5 m (5-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222119J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_202369N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.