Rubus moluccanus var. trilobus

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Family Rosaceae

Taxonomy: Rubus moluccanus var. trilobus A.R.Bean

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rubus moluccanus var. (Kandanga A.R.Bean 7053) (taxonomic synonym)

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

Rubus hillii F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: BRAIN_2007 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (9), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), NHNSW_2016 (1), NSWFRD_2014 (10), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 80 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): compound_fruit_other (1); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 81.25 mm (20-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 67.5 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); lobed_shallow (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); shrub (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: White_2020]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: 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); zoochory (1) [sources: BRAIN_2007; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnnyyy (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NSWFRD_2014; 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): bud-bearing_root (1); underground_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.02 mg (1.02-1.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
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.
RBGV_2023	13	15	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
NSWFRD_2014	8	10	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Cooper_2013	7	9	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
BRAIN_2007	1	1	Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network. Trait measurements for Australian rainforest species. 2016. url: http://www.brisrain.org.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2016	1	1	National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.