Rubus moluccanus var. moluccanus
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Family Rosaceae
Taxonomy: Rubus moluccanus L. var. moluccanus
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Rubus capricorni Focke (taxonomic synonym)
- Rubus capricornii Focke (taxonomic synonym)
- Rubus hillii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Rubus moluccanus var. austropacifica P.Royen (taxonomic synonym)
- Rubus moluccanus var. austropacificus P.Royen (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), Fonseca_2000 (13), Kooyman_2011 (12), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), Leishman_2007 (7), McGlone_2015 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 88 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 (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 2637.05 mm2 (1439.9-4270 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
- leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (40-170 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 58 mm (29.3-140 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 123.67 mg (83-175 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 62.72 g/m2 (49.26-78.12 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; Leishman_2007]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (1); shrub (3); subshrub (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; Leishman_2007; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: White_2020]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; White_2020]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Leishman_1995; White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (2); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 26.88 mg/g (26.88-26.88 mg/g) [sources: Leishman_2007]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.81 mg (0.8-0.81 mg) [sources: Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
- seed_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (0.5-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; McGlone_2015]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 22 | 22 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| Fonseca_2000 | 5 | 13 | C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 12 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 8 | 12 | 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. |
| Leishman_1995 | 8 | 8 | M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604. |
| Leishman_2007 | 7 | 7 | M. R. Leishman, T. Haslehurst, A. Ares, and Z. Baruch. “Leaf trait relationships of native and invasive plants: community- and global-scale comparisons”. New Phytologist 176.3 (2007), pp. 635-643. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02189.x. |
| McGlone_2015 | 7 | 7 | M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Leishman_1993 | 1 | 1 | M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |