Symplocos puberula
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Family Symplocaceae
Taxonomy: Symplocos puberula Jessup
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Symplocos cochinchinensis var. nov. (= RFK/2327) (taxonomic synonym)
- Symplocos cochinchinensis var. pilosiuscula Noot. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (3), Kanowski_2000 (23), Metcalfe_2009 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wells_2012 (97), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 161 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 4154.54 mm2 (1055.23-6936 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 368.95 mg (57.99-512.8 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 97.91 g/m2 (54.96-113.61 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wells_2012]
- leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.35 g/g (0.27-0.38 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.16 mg/g (15.16-15.16 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.84 mg/g (0.84-0.84 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 60 mg (60-60 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
- seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.56 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells_2012 | 22 | 97 | J. 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. |
| Kanowski_2000 | 23 | 23 | 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. |
| Metcalfe_2009 | 19 | 19 | E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x. |
| 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. |