Sarcomelicope simplicifolia

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Sarcomelicope simplicifolia (Endl.) T.G.Hartley

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acronychia simplicifolia (Endl.) McGill. & P.S.Green (nomenclatural synonym)
Acronychia simplicifolia (Endl.) Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
Acronychia simplicifolia Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Bauerella simplicifolia (Endl.) T.G.Hartley (nomenclatural synonym)
Vepris simplicifolia Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), Pickup_2021 (5), RadfordSmith_2024 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13), Wright_2000 (6), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (34). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 74 traits from 162 records in 18 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2); follicle (2) [sources: Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): white (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3586.84 mm2 (2621.49-5005.8 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]
leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (30-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 47 mm (20-78 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 264.56 mg (245.92-298.45 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (1-5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 71.88 g/m2 (48.12-101.93 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.33 g/g (0.32-0.35 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Westoby_2004]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13 mg (13-13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.81 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 18 m (18-18 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	14	39	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	28	34	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	13	18	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/.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
Westoby_2004	4	13	M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
McCarthy_2017	2	8	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Wright_2000	5	6	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Pickup_2021	5	5	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
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.
Ilic_2000	1	3	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.