Syzygium cryptophlebium

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium cryptophlebium (F.Muell.) Craven & Biffin

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eugenia cryptophlebia F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Eugenia macoorai F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia rhadinantha S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia rhadinanthera B.Hyland (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia sordida F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Syzygium wilsonii subsp. cryptophlebium (F.Muell.) B.Hyland (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Grubb_2008 (3), Ilic_2000 (3), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (119), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 164 records in 10 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): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1666.94 mm2 (493.02-4286.33 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 31.5 mm (13-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 138.33 mg (21.86-387.82 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 66.86 g/m2 (39.27-118.8 g/m2) [sources: Grubb_2008; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.4 g/g (0.34-0.45 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.4 g/g (1.4-1.4 g/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]
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: Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.8 mg/g (14.8-14.8 mg/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 61 mg (61-61 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.57 mg/mm3 (0.4-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	119	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.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. 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.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Gross_2005	4	4	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	4	4	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.
Grubb_2008	3	3	P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
Ilic_2000	1	3	J. 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.
Grubb_1996	2	2	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
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.