AusTraits

Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum F.Muell.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Fagara brachyacantha (F.Muell.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Fagara brachyacanthum Engl. (orthographic variant)
  • Fagara venefica (F.M.Bailey) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fagara venenifica Engl. (orthographic variant)
  • Xanthoxylon brachyacanthum F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Xanthoxylum brachyacanthum F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Zanthoxylum veneficum F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Butler_2004 (4), Cooper_2013 (29), Gross_2005 (8), Ilic_2000 (4), Kooyman_2011 (28), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), RadfordSmith_2024 (27), Sams_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 179 records in 17 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3); follicle (5); mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 11143.15 mm2 (8341.02-16698.25 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 994.4 mm2 (994.4-994.4 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 121.56 mm (20-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.62 mm (10-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 71.41 mg (71.41-71.41 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 10 cm (5-15 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 74.27 g/m2 (59.65-87.49 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.33 g/g (0.33-0.33 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); attenuate (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): animals (1); birds (2); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.4 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.12 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); ovoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.71 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (15-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131229W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111028R. 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.
RadfordSmith_20241627J. 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.
NHNSW_20231319N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017210J. 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.
Sams_2017910M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Gross_200548C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Wright_200056I. 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.
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.
Butler_200444D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Ilic_200014J. 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.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.