AusTraits

Siphonodon pendulus

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Siphonodon pendulus F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Siphonodon pendulum F.M.Bailey (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 29 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 40 mm (40-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 40 mm (40-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 122.5 mm (45-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.5-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231417Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
Ilic_200011J. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.