Xanthostemon oppositifolius
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Xanthostemon oppositifolius F.M.Bailey
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (2), Cooper_2013 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (2), RadfordSmith_2024 (41), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 71 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): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 2426.87 mm2 (1741.2-2679 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
- leaf_length (numerical): 85 mm (50-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 261.79 mg (228.9-288.27 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 131.65 g/m2 (110.59-142.29 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
- leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.41-0.45 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.3 mg (3.42-7.69 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.9 mg/mm3 (0.82-0.96 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RadfordSmith_2024 | 15 | 41 | J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 2 | 3 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| ANBG_2019 | 1 | 2 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| McCarthy_2017 | 2 | 2 | J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Ilic_2000 | 1 | 1 | J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |