Rubus alceifolius

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Family Rosaceae

Taxonomy: Rubus alceifolius Poir.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rubus alcaefolius Poir. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (119), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 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.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 9201.65 mm2 (2068.9-24376.7 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 150 mm (150-150 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 130 mm (130-130 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 370.11 mg (51.07-1219.7 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 32.63 g/m2 (24.34-50.04 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.25 g/g (0.21-0.3 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); shrub (3) [sources: 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): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.31 mg/mm3 (0.23-0.36 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	119	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	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2023	8	8	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/.
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_2022	3	3	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.