Steganthera cooperorum

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Family Monimiaceae

Taxonomy: Steganthera cooperorum Whiffin

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gen. (AQ63687) sp. (Davies Creek L.J.Webb+ 6430) (taxonomic synonym)
Gen. Nov. (AQ63687) sp. Davies Creek (L.J.Webb+ 6430) (taxonomic synonym)
Monimiaceae Gen. Nov. sp. (Davies Creek LJW 6430) (taxonomic synonym)
Monimiaceae Gen. nov. sp. (Davies Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
Wilkiea sp. 'Mt Lewis' (L.J.Webb & J.G.Tracey 10501) (taxonomic synonym)
Wilkiea sp. (Mt Lewis L.J.Webb+ 10501) (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Kibara papuana A.C.Sm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (26), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 91 records in 10 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

sex_type (categorical): trioecious (2); unknown (1) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 105 mm (60-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.15 cm (0.8-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [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 (6) [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 (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (3); nnnnnnnnnnyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 14.62 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 11.62 m (3-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	10	26	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	14	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	9	20	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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
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.
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.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
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.