Uvaria scabridula

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Family Annonaceae

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

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melodorum scabridulum Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
Melodorum sp. (Claudie River B.P.Hyland 21171) (taxonomic synonym)
Melodorum sp. (Claudie River B.P.Hyland 21171V) (taxonomic synonym)
Melodorum sp. (Claudie River BH 21171V) (taxonomic synonym)
Melodorum sp. (Claudie River) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 52 records in 10 datasets.

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

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 34.5 mm (19-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 19 mm (18-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 97.5 mm (40-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 38.75 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.3-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	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	6	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.