Trema tomentosa var. tomentosa

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Family Cannabaceae

Taxonomy: Trema tomentosa (Roxb.) H.Hara var. tomentosa

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sponia amboinensis (Willd.) Decne. (misapplied)
Trema amboinensis (Willd.) Blume (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): ChI (naturalised), Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (5), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 57 records in 9 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) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (50-180 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

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

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Cooper_2013	11	14	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.
ABRS_2023	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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/.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.