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Rhodosphaera rhodanthema

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Rhodosphaera rhodanthema (F.Muell.) Engl.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Rhus elegans Hill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rhus rhodanthema F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichilia scabra F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (15), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (17), RadfordSmith_2024 (42), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 67 traits from 168 records in 17 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9.75 mm (8-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.67 mm (8-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 9.5 mm (8-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 10363.29 mm2 (6148.35-17549.8 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 1371.41 mm2 (768.54-1713.61 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (30-200 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 155.34 mg (69.35-216.9 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 83.26 g/m2 (61.03-126.04 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.41 g/g (0.38-0.44 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); oblong (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); oblique (1); obtuse (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; 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 (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 409.62 mg (370.36-448.87 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.58-0.71 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 22.8 m (20-27 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241542J. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221719L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20241117N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
ABRS_2023911Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017210J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2810Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Ilic_200013J. 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_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.