Spondias dulcis

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Spondias dulcis Parkinson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Spondias cytherea Sonn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): ChI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (14). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 105 mm (80-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 26.5 cm (18-35 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.37 mg/mm3 (0.37-0.37 mg/mm3) [sources: Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	14	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.