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Symplocos wooroonooran

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Family Symplocaceae

Taxonomy: Symplocos wooroonooran Jessup

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Symplocos cochinchinensis var. montana (C.T.White) Noot. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Symplocos sp. Bellenden Ker (B.Hyland 5775) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Symplocos stawellii var. montana C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (3), Jagdish_2020 (4), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 42 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 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_length (numerical): 60 mm (30-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 23 mm (11-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 35.93 mg (35.93-35.93 mg) [sources: Jagdish_2020]
  • seed_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (5-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.45 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.45 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Jagdish_202024A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
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.
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.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.