AusTraits

Salacia chinensis

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Salacia chinensis L.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Salacia prinoides (Willd.) DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tonsella prinoides Willd. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (7), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2004 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Hyland_2003 (1), Kooyman_2011 (7), NHNSW_2016 (2), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (19), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 93 records in 20 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (13-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19.75 mm (13-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 18 mm (13-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; 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): orange (2); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5670 mm2 (5670-5670 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 126.67 mm (40-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.7-1.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (4); shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hyland_2003; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Cooper_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); ynnnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 14.83 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 15.25 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231319D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231215Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013810W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_198147B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Kooyman_201177R. 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_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.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_201622National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Cooper_200411W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest. Nokomis Editions, 2004. ISBN: 9780958174213.
Hyland_200311B. P. M. Hyland, T. Whiffin, D. Christophel, B. Gray, and R. W. Elick. Australian tropical rain forest plants trees, shrubs and vines. CSIRO Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0643068724.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.