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Syzygium moorei

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium moorei (F.Muell.) L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eugenia moorei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (15), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), Pickup_2021 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 77 records in 12 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 51.25 mm (35-60 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 42.5 mm (35-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); white (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (90-160 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (35-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.2-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): indigenous_people (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9077.01 mg (9077.01-9077.01 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231218N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131215W. 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.
Wright_200077I. 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.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Pickup_202155M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.