AusTraits

Salacia disepala

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Salacia disepala (C.T.White) Ding Hou

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Salacicratea disepala C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2004 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Hyland_2003 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (16), NHNSW_2016 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (66), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 59 traits from 141 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 41.5 mm (25-58 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5991.76 mm2 (2661.98-9600 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2016; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 152.5 mm (60-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 61.25 mm (25-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 209.48 mg (158.01-327.41 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.5-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 58.18 g/m2 (46.57-67.22 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.34 g/g (0.3-0.35 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (4); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hyland_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); endozoochory (1) [sources: Cooper_2004; Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (2); cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3600 mg (3600-3600 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 24 mm (20-28 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122266J. 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.
Metcalfe_20091616E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
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.
NHNSW_201622National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.