Rhizophora mucronata

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Family Rhizophoraceae

Taxonomy: Rhizophora mucronata Poir.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rhizophora mucronata Poir. f. mucronata (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhizophora mucronata Poir. var. mucronata (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhizophora mucronata f. reducta Hochr. (taxonomic synonym)
Rhizophora mucronata var. typica A.Schimp. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rhizophora mangle L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (11), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 50 records in 12 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): 50 mm (40-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 31.5 mm (30-33 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 155 mm (110-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 80 mm (50-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; 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: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): viviparous (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.8 mg/mm3 (0.77-0.84 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 18.33 m (15-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	5	5	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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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_3	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
Ilic_2000	1	1	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.
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.
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.