AusTraits

Agathis robusta

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Family Araucariaceae

Taxonomy: Agathis robusta (C.Moore ex F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agathis palmerstoni F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agathis palmerstoni F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agathis palmerstonii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara bidwilli M.Guilf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara bidwillii M.Guilf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara palmerstoni F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara palmerstonii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara robusta C.Moore ex F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dammara robusta C.Moore ex Parl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dammara sp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammara sp. The Kaurie Tree of Wide Bay (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dammera robusta E.M.Ross (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agathis brownii (Lem.) L.H.Bailey (misapplied)
  • Dammara brownii Lem. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Ilic_2000 (4), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), Lemmens_1994 (1), McCarthy_2017 (10), Niinemets_2009 (38), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2009 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 67 traits from 129 records in 15 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): monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 120 mm (90-150 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 92.5 mm (80-105 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2175.13 mm2 (1804.55-2604.25 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 120.45 g/m2 (89.35-192.2 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; 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]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Kew_2019_5]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg/g (11-11 mg/g) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.58 mg/g (0.38-0.78 mg/g) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -24.61 {delta}[ppth] (-24.9--24.32 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 43.94 mg (40.82-50 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 18.75 mm (12-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.38-0.41 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Lemmens_1994]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 50 m (50-50 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Niinemets_20092738Ü. Niinemets, I. J. Wright, and J. R. Evans. “Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation”. Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (2009), pp. 2433-2449. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp045.
Wright_20091326I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Leaf pigment and reflectance data for sclerophylls, Macquarie University”. 2009.
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
Butler_200455D. 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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal 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.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lemmens_199411R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.