AusTraits

Symplocos hayesii

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Family Symplocaceae

Taxonomy: Symplocos hayesii C.T.White & W.D.Francis

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (9), Wells_2012 (53), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 91 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2461.24 mm2 (2096.67-2872.22 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 82.5 mm (45-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 149.57 mg (121.58-187.53 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 60.1 g/m2 (56.48-65.29 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.27 g/g (0.24-0.29 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.72 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122253J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Sams_201789M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.