Terminalia complanata

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Family Combretaceae

Taxonomy: Terminalia complanata K.Schum.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (9), Lemmens_1994 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (2), Zanne_2009 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 64 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.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (15-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.25 mm (10-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): anthocarp (2); drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (50-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 13 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 15 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.45 mg/mm3) [sources: Lemmens_1994; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 45 m (45-45 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	7	9	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.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Wright_2000	2	2	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.
Zanne_2009	1	2	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Lemmens_1994	1	1	R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.