Sphenostemon lobosporus

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Family Paracryphiaceae

Taxonomy: Sphenostemon lobosporus (F.Muell.) L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Phlebocalymma lobospora F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Phlebocalymna lobospora F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 109 records in 12 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_diameter (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.25-0.35 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (15-21 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (80-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (25-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.4 cm (0.8-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.47-0.47 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	23	28	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_2021	20	20	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
ABRS_2023	12	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Ilic_2000	1	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.