AusTraits

Uvaria topazensis

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Family Annonaceae

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

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melodorum sp. 'Topaz' (G.Sankowsky+ 244) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melodorum sp. (Topaz G.Sankowsky+ 244) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melodorum sp. (Topaz GS244) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melodorum sp. (Topaz) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melodorum topazense Jessup (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Melodorum topazensis Jessup (nomenclatural 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 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (55), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 106 records in 11 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): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2509.88 mm2 (1499.34-3471.72 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 147.5 mm (40-270 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.75 mm (17-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 101.54 mg (51.57-148.17 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.3-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 39.18 g/m2 (34.4-43.91 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.36-0.43 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); 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 (3); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; 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]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnynnnnnnnn (2); yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.5 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.52 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122255J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. 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_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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_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/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.