Syzygium nervosum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium nervosum DC.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cleistocalyx operculata Chippend. (taxonomic synonym)
Cleistocalyx operculatus (Roxb.) Merr. & L.M.Perry (taxonomic synonym)
Cleistocalyx operculatus (Roxb.) Merr. & L.M.Perry var. operculatus (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia gigantea Ridl. (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia holtzeana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia holtzei F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia holtziana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia operculata Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia operculata Roxb. var. operculata (taxonomic synonym)
Eugenia sp. (taxonomic synonym)
Syzygium operculatum (Roxb.) Nied. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, ChI, NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (25). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 104 records in 19 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 126.83 mm (80-190 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 48.33 mm (32-66 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.8-1.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); terete (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2); nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.55 {delta}[ppth] (-32.55--32.55 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 120 mg (120-120 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 18.83 m (3-25 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	25	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023	10	13	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	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.
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.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Schmidt_2003	2	2	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.