Tristaniopsis collina

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Tristaniopsis collina Peter G.Wilson & J.T.Waterh.

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

Distribution (APC): NSW, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), Fonseca_2000 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Kubiak_2009 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (23), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 104 records in 15 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 (5) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.25 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 905.6 mm2 (905.6-905.6 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 66.25 mm (40-95 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.4 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 111 mg (111-111 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.2-0.6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 121.95 g/m2 (121.95-121.95 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (7) [sources: Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (3); ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.94 mg (0.94-0.94 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.83 mg/mm3 (0.83-0.83 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 33.33 m (30-35 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	16	23	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Fonseca_2000	5	5	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kubiak_2009	2	3	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.