AusTraits

Zanthoxylum ovalifolium

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Zanthoxylum ovalifolium Wight

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Fagara ovalifolia (Wight) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Fagara varians Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylon ovalifolium Wight (orthographic variant)
  • Zanthoxylum dominianum Merr. & L.M.Perry (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylum inerme C.T.White & W.D.Francis (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylum suberosum C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 93 records in 13 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): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.5-0.5 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 118.12 mm (40-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (25-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 78.63 g/m2 (78.63-78.63 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 28.84 mg (19.34-38.34 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.67 m (6-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221921L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
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.
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.
Gross_200544C. 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.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wright_200011I. 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.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.