Suriana maritima

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Family Surianaceae

Taxonomy: Suriana maritima L.

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

Distribution (APC): WA, CoI, AR, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_3 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (27). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 85 records in 13 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 24.25 mm (11-36 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1701.75 mm (3-5000 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1); yynnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.78 mg (9.86-15.27 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.72 m (0.9-4 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	27	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2023	7	9	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_3	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.