Wrightia pubescens

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Wrightia pubescens R.Br.

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

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Brock_1993 (12), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Prior_2003 (101), Schmidt_2003 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 185 records in 14 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 225 mm (150-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2679.33 mm2 (1714-3454.33 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_length (numerical): 128.33 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 56.67 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.4-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 52.16 g/m2 (47.3-57.87 g/m2) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.16 g/g (0.04-0.29 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.57 g/g (2.43-2.86 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); oblong (2); obovate (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; Prior_2003]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (3); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; WAH_1998]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 32.81 mg/g (27.9-38.6 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.64 mg/g (1.45-1.95 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.95 {delta}[ppth] (-27.95--27.95 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (9-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): fusiform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20.5 m (2-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Prior_2003	21	101	L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
ABRS_2023	16	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	14	17	D. 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/.
Schmidt_2003	12	15	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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_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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_1998	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.