Syzygium unipunctatum
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Syzygium unipunctatum (B.Hyland) Craven & Biffin
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Waterhousea unipunctata B.Hyland (basionym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Kanowski_2000 (45), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (15), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 102 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (11-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [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]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 2160 mm2 (2140-2180 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
- leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (60-125 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 34 mm (18-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 116.05 g/m2 (103.91-134.95 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyynnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.68 mg/g (10.94-20.36 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.7 mg/g (0.4-0.97 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanowski_2000 | 23 | 45 | J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999. |
| Wills_2018 | 15 | 15 | J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |