Psychotria simmondsiana

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Psychotria simmondsiana F.M.Bailey

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

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), RadfordSmith_2024 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 97 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 368.7 mm2 (161.02-722.6 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 53.5 mm (17-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (4-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 15.97 mg (8.9-22.32 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.1-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 61.03 g/m2 (55.29-72.98 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.25 g/g (0.23-0.28 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.43 mg (8.43-8.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.57 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.59 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.15 m (4-4.3 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	14	39	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
NHNSW_2023	13	16	N. 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/.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
McCarthy_2017	2	10	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.