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Syzygium gustavioides

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium gustavioides (F.M.Bailey) B.Hyland

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cleistocalyx gustavioides (F.M.Bailey) Merr. & L.M.Perry (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eugenia gustavioides F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Syzygium gustavoides K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Falster_2005_1 (10), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Ilic_2000 (5), Kanowski_2000 (94), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 196 records in 16 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): 75 mm (60-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 75 mm (60-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4994 mm2 (3590-6680 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 102.5 mm (50-155 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-75 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 133.75 g/m2 (96.99-167 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; 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): mammals (1); non-flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.86 mg/g (12.46-15.21 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.46 mg/g (1.26-1.69 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.63 {delta}[ppth] (-30.03--27.22 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 47277.48 mg (43664.9-48000 mg) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 50 mm (40-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.57 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Falster_2005_1; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 15.62 {count}/mm2 (15.62-15.62 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 109.6 um (109.6-109.6 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.15 mm2/mm2 (0.15-0.15 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_20002494J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
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.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_20201212A. 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.
Falster_2005_1710D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
Wright_2000710I. 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.
Sams_201789M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Ilic_200015J. 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.
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.
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.
Grubb_199622P. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.