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Sonneratia alba

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Family Lythraceae

Taxonomy: Sonneratia alba Sm.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blatti alba (Sm.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Brock_1993 (12), Bryant_2021 (630), Bryant_2021_2 (263), Bryant_2021_3 (121), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 1,118 records in 22 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): 3 cm (3-3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 31 mm (26-36 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 31.17 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2527.06 mm2 (1000-5266.6 mm2) [sources: Bryant_2021; Bryant_2021_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 81.25 mm (40-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (18-80 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 853.11 mg (356.7-2803 mg) [sources: Bryant_2021; Bryant_2021_2]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.02 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 204.03 g/m2 (141.3-316.3 g/m2) [sources: Bryant_2021_2; Bryant_2021_3]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.96 g/g (1.09-2.55 g/g) [sources: Bryant_2021_3]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obcordate (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); orbicular (2); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Bryant_2021_3; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (1); nyyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10.3 m (3-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Bryant_20214630C. Bryant, T. I. Fuenzalida, A. Zavafer, H. T. Nguyen, N. Brothers, R. J. Harris, H. A. A. Beckett, H. I. Holmlund, O. Binks, and M. C. Ball. “Foliar water uptake via cork warts in mangroves of the Sonneratia genus”. Plant, Cell & Environment 44.9 (2021), pp. 2925-2937. ISSN: 1365-3040. doi: 10.1111/pce.14129.
Bryant_2021_217263C. Bryant, T. I. Fuenzalida, N. Brothers, M. Mencuccini, L. Sack, O. Binks, and M. C. Ball. “Shifting access to pools of shoot water sustains gas exchange and increases stem hydraulic safety during seasonal atmospheric drought”. Plant, Cell & Environment 44.9 (2021), pp. 2898-2911. ISSN: 1365-3040. doi: 10.1111/pce.14080.
Bryant_2021_37121C. Bryant, R. J. Harris, N. Brothers, C. Bone, N. Walsh, A. B. Nicotra, and M. C. Ball. “Cross-tolerance: Salinity gradients and dehydration increase photosynthetic heat tolerance in mangrove leaves”. Functional Ecology (2024). ISSN: 1365-2435. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14508.
NTH_20231318D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231015Australian 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.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
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.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
ABRS_198123B. 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/.
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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_202233L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.