Allocasuarina acutivalvis

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina acutivalvis (F.Muell.) L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Casuarina acutivalvis F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), ANBG_2019 (5), Barrett_2009 (6), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Draper_2023 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Shedley_2007 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Staples_2019 (75), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 153 records in 20 datasets.

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

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Shedley_2007]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Shedley_2007]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 60 mo (60-60 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_type (categorical): samara (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 181.54 mm2 (93.79-296.09 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 101.74 mg (44-189.9 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 556.63 g/m2 (433.39-647.33 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (13); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 5 a (5-5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); vertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Shedley_2007]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.32 mg (2.32-2.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 3.27 mm (3.27-3.27 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.81 mg/mm3 (0.81-0.81 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.38 m (2.5-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Staples_2019	3	75	T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
Shedley_2007	4	12	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
ABRS_2023	7	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Barrett_2009	6	6	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_2023	4	4	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. 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.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. 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_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.