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Ziziphus mauritiana

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Family Rhamnaceae

Taxonomy: Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Paliurus mairei H.Lev. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rhamnus jujuba L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rhamnus mauritiana (Lam.) P.Willemet (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ziziphus aucheri Boiss. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus jujuba (L.) Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus jujuba (L.) Lam. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus jujuba var. fruticosa Haines (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus jujuba var. stenocarpa Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus mairei (H.Lev.) K.Browicz & Lauener (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. deserticola A.Chev. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. orthacantha (DC.) A.Chev. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus orthacantha DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus poiretii G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus rotundata DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ziziphus tomentosa Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zizyphus jujuba F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (22), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (24), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 87 records in 12 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15.67 mm (10-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15.67 mm (10-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 14.75 mm (10-24 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1); orange (1); purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 46.25 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 31.25 mm (15-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); oblique (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 8.75 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9.5 m (4-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231624D. 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/.
ABRS_20231522Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221212L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.