AusTraits

Syzygium suborbiculare

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syzygium suborbiculare (Benth.) T.G.Hartley & L.M.Perry

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Careya jambosoides Lauterb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eugenia jambosoides (Lauterb.) O.Schwarz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eugenia suborbicularis Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Syzygium jambosoides (Lauterb.) Merr. & L.M.Perry (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Eamus_1998 (15), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lawes_2012 (6), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), Prior_2003 (191), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 64 traits from 326 records in 27 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 56.25 mm (30-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 9039.07 mm2 (5075.33-11735.67 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 112 mm (70-190 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 91.25 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.9 cm (1.3-2.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 123.59 g/m2 (114.68-162.69 g/m2) [sources: Eamus_1998; Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.37 g/g (0.34-0.42 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.72 g/g (1.36-1.94 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Eamus_1998; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Eamus_1998; Munroe_2019; Prior_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (10) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Eamus_1998; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Rice_1991; 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); semi_deciduous (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Eamus_1998; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Eamus_1998; Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (2); nnnnnyyyyyyn (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.72 mg/g (7.9-15.5 mg/g) [sources: Eamus_1998; Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.85 mg/g (0.58-1.04 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13387.2 mg (2270-27312 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (30-55 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 11.38 m (4-15 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Prior_200321191L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
NTH_20231117D. 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/.
Eamus_19981515D. Eamus and H. Prichard. “A cost-benefit analysis of leaves of four Australian savanna species”. Tree Physiology 18 (1998), pp. 537-545. doi: 10.1093/treephys/18.8-9.537.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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_200888I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
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.
Lawes_201216M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
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.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Ilic_200013J. 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.
NTH_202233D. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.