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Symplocos stawellii

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Family Symplocaceae

Taxonomy: Symplocos stawellii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Symplocos cochinchinensis var. stawellii (F.Muell.) Noot. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Symplocos spicata var. australis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Symplocos stawellii F.Muell. var. stawellii (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), RadfordSmith_2024 (40), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (27). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 139 records in 14 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): blue_purple (1); green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • 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]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5086.85 mm2 (2036.05-7029.84 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (60-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40.75 mm (20-68 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 478.58 mg (378.28-592.8 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.45 cm (0.9-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 113.09 g/m2 (74.5-181.41 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.37 g/g (0.36-0.39 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyynnnnn (1); nnnyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.48 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.53 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 22.33 m (17-25 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241540J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221927L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231319N. 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_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
McCarthy_201724J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Gross_200533C. 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.
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/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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_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.