AusTraits

Syzygium monospermum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium monospermum Craven

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Syzygium sp. (Noah Creek K.D.Hill+ 2038) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Syzygium sp. (Noah Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Syzygium sp. aff. S. erythrocalyx (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cheesman_2020 (12), Cooper_2013 (27), Kooyman_2011 (26), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Weerasinghe_2014 (27), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 136 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 53.25 mm (38-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 45.75 mm (32-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5600 mm2 (5600-5600 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 136.25 mm (55-300 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 52 mm (25-93 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 90.7 g/m2 (70-119.55 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Weerasinghe_2014; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.35 g/g (0.35-0.35 g/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cheesman_2020; 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 (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1); nnnnynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.14 mg/g (12.68-13.6 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.7 mg/g (0.7-0.7 mg/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.43 {delta}[ppth] (-32.43--32.43 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 32 mm (23-40 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 147.76 {count}/mm2 (87.73-195.15 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 36.75 um (28.96-44.46 um) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.15 mm2/mm2 (0.11-0.21 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 18.5 m (17-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Cooper_20131127W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Weerasinghe_20141227L. K. Weerasinghe, D. Creek, K. Y. Crous, S. Xiang, M. J. Liddell, M. H. Turnbull, and O. K. Atkin. “Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland”. Tree Physiology 34.6 (2014), pp. 564-584. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu016.
Kooyman_2011926R. 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.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.