Tristemma mauritianum
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Family Melastomataceae
Taxonomy: Tristemma mauritianum J.F.Gmel.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Tristemma virusanum Comm. ex Juss. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 32 records in 6 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): 14 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (6-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.04 mg (0.04-0.04 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 11 | 14 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 11 | 11 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |