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Terminalia erythrocarpa

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Family Combretaceae

Taxonomy: Terminalia erythrocarpa F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Myrobalanus erythrocarpa (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (11), Chen_2017 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 91 records in 18 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 16 mm (14-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.75 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8.75 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): anthocarp (2); drupe (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Gross_2005]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 150.83 mm (90-225 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.92 cm (1.7-7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1); scattered (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (3); evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 124.16 mg (124.16-124.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 11.5 m (6-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231218D. 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/.
ABRS_20231417Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993911J. 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.
Chen_201744Chen, 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_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.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
ATRP_202011F. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.