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Syzygium paniculatum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium paniculatum Gaertn.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eugenia paniculata (Gaertn.) Britten (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eugenia paniculata Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Myrtus paniculata (Gaertn.) J.F.Gmel. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eugenia australis J.C.Wendl. ex Link (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW (native and naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (8), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 83 records in 13 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): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 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): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 136 mg (136-136 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 9.13 mm (4.89-15 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.08 mm (3.66-5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.63 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 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_20131114W. 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.
NSWFRD_201478B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
ANBG_201944Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Ilic_200014J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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_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.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.