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Syncarpia glomulifera

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syncarpia glomulifera (Sm.) Nied.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Kamptzia albens (DC.) Nees (taxonomic synonym)
  • Metrosideros glomulifera Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Metrosideros propinqua Salisb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nani glomulifera (Sm.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nania glomulifera Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Syncarpia laurifolia Ten. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tristania albens DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tristania albicans G.Benn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (11), Cunningham_1999 (15), Ellsworth_2015 (48), Falster_2003 (3), Fonseca_2000 (13), Grootemaat_2015 (226), Grootemaat_2017_1 (295), Grootemaat_2017_2 (54), Hughes_1992 (3), Ilic_2000 (6), Jagdish_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (5), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Kotowska_2020 (188), Kubiak_2009 (3), Laxton_2005 (20), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), Moles_2000 (3), Moles_2011 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), Niinemets_2009 (74), Onoda_2010 (35), Pickup_2005 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Tsujii_2023 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (17), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (7), Wright_2001 (3), Wright_2002 (69), Wright_2009 (39), Zanne_2007 (24), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 222 traits from 1,278 records in 45 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 (5) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; Williams_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 16 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2394.75 mm2 (1057-4320 mm2) [sources: Falster_2003; Fonseca_2000; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_1; Laxton_2005; Leishman_1995; Moles_2000; Moles_2011; Niinemets_2009; Pickup_2005; Tng_2013; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 69.7 mm (8.4-131 mm) [sources: Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_1; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.15 mm (4-56 mm) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Fonseca_2000; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_1; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 298.65 mg (136-740.96 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_1]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.07-0.13 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 143.19 g/m2 (71.15-246.99 g/m2) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Ellsworth_2015; Fonseca_2000; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_1; Kotowska_2020; Laxton_2005; Leishman_1995; Moles_2000; Moles_2011; Niinemets_2009; Pickup_2005; Tng_2013; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002; Zanne_2007]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 4.99 mm2/mg (4.99-4.99 mm2/mg) [sources: Pickup_2005]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.48 g/g (0.44-0.52 g/g) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Moles_2011]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.31 g/g (2.31-2.31 g/g) [sources: Grootemaat_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Falster_2003; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (2) [sources: Moles_2000; Moles_2011]
  • leaf_hairs_immature_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Moles_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 36.2 deg (36.2-36.2 deg) [sources: Falster_2003]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (9) [sources: Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; Moles_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Cunningham_1999; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (3); yynnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.23 mg/g (6.8-15.9 mg/g) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Ellsworth_2015; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_2; Kotowska_2020; Laxton_2005; Niinemets_2009; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.41 mg/g (0.17-0.84 mg/g) [sources: Ellsworth_2015; Grootemaat_2015; Grootemaat_2017_2; Kotowska_2020; Niinemets_2009; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.02 {delta}[ppth] (-31.13--29.16 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Niinemets_2009; Tng_2013; Wright_2002]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.57 mg (0.17-5.77 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995; Wright_2001]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.92 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Kotowska_2020; Onoda_2010; Pickup_2005; Tng_2013; Zanne_2007; Zanne_2009]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Kotowska_2020; Pickup_2005; Zanne_2007]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 95.52 {count}/mm2 (12.57-203.08 {count}/mm2) [sources: Kotowska_2020]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.14 mm2/mm2 (0.07-0.19 mm2/mm2) [sources: Kotowska_2020]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Grootemaat_2017_150295S. Grootemaat, I. J. Wright, P. M. van Bodegom, J. H. C. Cornelissen, and V. Shaw. “Bark traits, decomposition and flammability of Australian forest trees”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 327. doi: 10.1071/bt16258.
Grootemaat_201519226S. Grootemaat, I. J. Wright, P. M. Bodegom, J. H. C. Cornelissen, and W. K. Cornwell. “Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species”. Functional Ecology 29.11 (2015), pp. 1486-1497. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12449.
Kotowska_202022188M. M. Kotowska, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Parenchyma abundance in wood of evergreen trees varies independently of nutrients”. Frontiers in Plant Science 11 (2020), p. art86. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00086.
Niinemets_20092674Ü. Niinemets, I. J. Wright, and J. R. Evans. “Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation”. Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (2009), pp. 2433-2449. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp045.
Wright_20023469I. J. Wright and M. Westoby. “Leaves at low versus high rainfall: Coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology”. New Phytologist 155 (2002), pp. 403-416. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00479.x.
Grootemaat_2017_21054S. Grootemaat, I. J. Wright, P. M. van Bodegom, and J. H. C. Cornelissen. “Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds”. Oikos 126.10 (2017), pp. 1428-1438. doi: 10.1111/oik.03886.
Ellsworth_20151648D. S. Ellsworth, K. Y. Crous, H. Lambers, and J. Cooke. “Phosphorus recycling in photorespiration maintains high photosynthetic capacity in woody species”. Plant, Cell & Environment 38.6 (2015), pp. 1142-1156. doi: 10.1111/pce.12468.
Wright_20091339I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Leaf pigment and reflectance data for sclerophylls, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Onoda_2010735Y. Onoda, A. E. Richards, and M. Westoby. “The relationship between stem biomechanics and wood density is modified by rainfall in 32 Australian woody plant species”. New Phytologist 185.2 (2009), pp. 493-501. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03088.x.
Zanne_2007624A. Zanne. “Unpublished data: Hydraulic traits for NSW plant species from four field sites, Macquarie University”. 2007.
Laxton_20051120E. Laxton. “Relationship between leaf traits, insect communities and resource availability”. PhD. Macquarie University, 2005. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/483.
NHNSW_20231218N. 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/.
White_20201717M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221417L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cunningham_19991515S. A. Cunningham, B. Summerhayes, and M. Westoby. “Evolutionary divergences in leaf structure and chemistry, comparing rainfall and soil nutrient gradients”. Ecological Monographs 69 (1999), pp. 569-588. doi: [10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0569:EDILSA]2.0.CO;2](https://doi.org/10.1890%2F0012-9615%281999%29069%5B0569%3AEDILSA%5D2.0.CO%3B2).
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.
Fonseca_2000513C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Cooper_2013811W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Tsujii_202388Y. Tsujii, B. J. Atwell, H. Lambers, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf phosphorus fractions vary with leaf economic traits among 35 Australian woody species”. New Phytologist 241.5 (2024), pp. 1985-1997. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.19513.
Moles_201177A. T. Moles, I. R. Wallis, W. J. Foley, D. I. Warton, J. C. Stegen, A. J. Bisigato, L. Cella-Pizarro, C. J. Clark, P. S. Cohen, W. K. Cornwell, W. Edwards, R. Ejrnaes, T. Gonzales-Ojeda, B. J. Graae, G. Hay, F. C. Lumbwe, B. Magana-Rodriguez, B. D. Moore, P. L. Peri, J. R. Poulsen, R. Veldtman, H. von Zeipel, N. R. Andrew, S. L. Boulter, E. T. Borer, F. F. Campon, M. Coll, A. G. Farji-Brener, J. D. Gabriel, E. Jurado, L. A. Kyhn, B. Low, C. P. H. Mulder, K. Reardon-Smith, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, E. W. Seabloom, P. A. Vesk, A. van Cauter, M. S. Waldram, Z. Zheng, P. G. Blendinger, B. J. Enquist, J. M. Facelli, T. Knight, J. D. Majer, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. McQuillan, and L. D. Prior. “Putting plant resistance traits on the map: A test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes”. New Phytologist 191.3 (2011), pp. 777-788. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03732.x.
Wright_200077I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Ilic_200016J. 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.
Leishman_199566M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
NHNSW_2014_266Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Kew_2019_115Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Pickup_200555M. Pickup, M. Westoby, and A. Basden. “Dry mass costs of deploying leaf area in relation to leaf size”. Functional Ecology 19.1 (2005), pp. 88-97. doi: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00927.x.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Jagdish_202024A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Falster_200333D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Leaf size and angle vary widely across species: what consequences for light interception?”. New Phytologist 158.3 (2003), pp. 509-525. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00765.x.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Kubiak_200923P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Moles_200033A. T. Moles and M. Westoby. “Do small leaves expand faster than large leaves, and do shorter expansion times reduce herbivore damage?”. OIKOS 90.3 (2000), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900310.x..
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/.
Williams_201233P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Wright_200123I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Seed mass reserve data for various species in NSW, Macquarie University”. 2001.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.