Symplocos glabra
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Family Symplocaceae
Taxonomy: Symplocos glabra Jessup
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Symplocos cochinchinensis var. glaberrima Noot. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Symplocos cochinchinensis var. nov. (= RFK/2355) (taxonomic synonym)
- Symplocos sp. aff. S.thwaitesii (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (3), Kanowski_2000 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 43 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.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 3460 mm2 (3460-3460 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 180.83 g/m2 (180.83-180.83 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.68 mg/g (10.68-10.68 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.34 mg/g (0.34-0.34 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanowski_2000 | 21 | 21 | J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999. |
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Gross_2005 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| 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. |