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Zanthoxylum rhetsa

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Roxb.) DC.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Fagara parviflora (Benth.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fagara rhetsa Roxb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Tipalia limonella Dennst. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Xanthoxylum parviflorum F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylum limonella Alston (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylum limonelle W.E.Cooper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zanthoxylum parviflorum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 61 records in 8 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): 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: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); follicle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 128.75 mm (40-420 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 31.25 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); oblique (1); rounded (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) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nynnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6 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]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 22 m (20-26 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231420Australian 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.
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.
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.