AusTraits

Uvaria rupestre

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Uvaria rupestre (Jessup) L.L.Zhou, Y.C.F.Zu & R.M.K.Saunders

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melodorum D2829 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melodorum rupestre Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 69 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75.17 mm (24-127 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38.33 mm (16-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.32 cm (0.2-0.55 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); obovate (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2); obtuse (1); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (2); shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnyy (1); yyyynnnnnnyy (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (11-11 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5 m (2-10 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231215D. 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/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_202369Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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_198133B. 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/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.