Tarennoidea wallichii

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Tarennoidea wallichii (Hook.f.) Tirveng. & Sastre

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Randia wallichii Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 43 records in 11 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); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 185 mm (70-300 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 59.5 mm (29-90 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 50.55 mg (50.55-50.55 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	13	18	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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	5	8	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
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/.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.