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Tetrardisia bifaria

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Tetrardisia bifaria (C.T.White & W.D.Francis) C.T.White

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ardisia bifaria C.T.White & W.D.Francis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Tetrardisia disticha Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 71 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7.25 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (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): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.67 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231721Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221518L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.