Syzygium endophloium

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium endophloium B.Hyland

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wills_2018 (90), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 140 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 64 mm (38-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 26.5 mm (13-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 155.17 g/m2 (107.94-195.19 g/m2) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: 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]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.01 mg/g (3.75-11.14 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.61 mg/g (0.4-0.72 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 287.58 mg (287.58-287.58 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.77 mg/mm3 (0.73-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wills_2018	15	90	J. 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.
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	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wright_2000	7	7	I. 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.
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.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.