Sersalisia sessiliflora
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Family Sapotaceae
Taxonomy: Sersalisia sessiliflora (C.T.White) Aubrév.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lucuma sessiliflora C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pouteria sylvatica Baehni (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 35 records in 6 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (50-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (30-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 130 mm (70-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |