AusTraits

Steganthera laxiflora subsp. lewisensis

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Family Monimiaceae

Taxonomy: Steganthera laxiflora subsp. lewisensis Whiffin

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tetrasynandra sp. 'Mt Lewis' (B.P.Hyland 7907) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tetrasynandra sp. (Mt Lewis B.P.Hyland 1053) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 47 records in 8 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): monoecious (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (17-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.75 mm (11-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (2-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231014Australian 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.
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.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.