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Sloanea macbrydei

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Sloanea macbrydei F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Echinocarpus macbrydei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kanowski_2000 (90), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (120), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (30), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 78 traits from 321 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 1.5 cm (1.2-1.8 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2866.74 mm2 (1698.9-4820.65 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (45-210 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 324.94 mg (110.66-534.87 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 126.7 g/m2 (41.1-161.53 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017; Wells_2012; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.43 g/g (0.32-0.46 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (1); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.86 mg/g (12.53-15.16 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.75 mg/g (0.55-0.97 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 130 mg (130-130 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (11-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.48 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.56 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 35 m (35-35 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201223120J. 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.
Kanowski_20002390J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
Wills_20181530J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221921L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Sams_2017910M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Gross_200544C. 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.
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.
Ilic_200013J. 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_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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.