Tarenna dallachiana

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Tarenna dallachiana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) S.Moore

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chomelia dallachiana Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Chomelia dallachyana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Ixora dallachiana S.T.Reynolds & P.I.Forst. (nomenclatural synonym)
Ixora dallachyana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Stylocoryna dallachyana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Stylocoryne dallachyana Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Webera dallachiana Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Webera dallachyana F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2017 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 93 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.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 142.5 mm (95-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 150 mm (30-270 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 41.66 g/m2 (41.66-41.66 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.93 {delta}[ppth] (-30.93--30.93 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.76 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Sams_2017]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 93.03 {count}/mm2 (93.03-93.03 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 39.3 um (39.3-39.3 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.11 mm2/mm2 (0.11-0.11 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15 m (2-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	29	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Sams_2017	8	9	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
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/.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.