Psychotria sp. Utchee Creek (H.Flecker NQNC5313)

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Psychotria sp. Utchee Creek (H.Flecker NQNC5313) Qld Herbarium

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gaertnera australiana C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
Psychotria sp. (taxonomic synonym)
Psychotria sp. (Utchee Creek H.Flecker NQNC5313) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Psychotria sp. (Utchee Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
Psychotria sp. Utchee Creek (H.Flecker NQNC 5313) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Falster_2005_1 (9), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (96), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 139 records in 8 datasets.

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

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 9255.38 mm2 (3027.58-16849.89 mm2) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 235 mm (120-350 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 70 mm (40-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 708.41 mg (178.76-1480.31 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 80.49 g/m2 (54.43-108 g/m2) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.17-0.24 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): moth (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.9 mg/g (17.9-17.9 mg/g) [sources: Falster_2005_1]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 23.09 mg (23.09-23.09 mg) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.41 mg/mm3 (0.28-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	96	J. 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_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Falster_2005_1	7	9	D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.