AusTraits

Strychnos arborea

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Family Loganiaceae

Taxonomy: Strychnos arborea A.W.Hill

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Cooper_2013 (15), Ilic_2000 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 66 records in 9 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): red_brown (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (2); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 47 mm (30-66 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.75 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.38 cm (0.2-0.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (2); widely_ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.84 mg/mm3 (0.84-0.84 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 14 m (12-18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231521Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231417N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_200011J. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.