AusTraits

Syzygium claviflorum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium claviflorum (Roxb.) Wall. ex Steud.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acmenosperma claviflorum (Roxb.) Kausel (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eugenia claviflora Roxb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eugenia claviflora var. leptalea (Craib) M.R.Hend. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eugenia leptalea Craib (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eugenia leptantha Wight (taxonomic synonym)
  • Syzygium leptanthus Nied. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheesman_2020 (8), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Metcalfe_2009 (18), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (75), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 64 traits from 173 records in 17 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): fire_killed (2); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (9-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4645 mm2 (4070-5220 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 101.25 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (25-58 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 110.63 g/m2 (67.48-144.2 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (6) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyy (1); yyyyynnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; RussellSmith_2012]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.08 mg/g (12-24.03 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 3.18 mg/g (2.76-3.69 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.76 {delta}[ppth] (-30.76--30.76 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 110 mg (110-110 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.76 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wills_20181575J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
Metcalfe_20091818E. 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_20131114W. 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.
NTH_20231012D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cheesman_202088A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Gross_200544C. 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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Wright_200044I. 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_200013J. 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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.