AusTraits

Allocasuarina duncanii

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina duncanii L.A.S.Johnson & D.I.Morris

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (3), TMAG_2009 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 37 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): samara (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; TMAG_2009]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (1-17 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.08 mm (0.9-1.4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.28 mg (1.63-2.93 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.61 mm (3.61-3.61 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.78 mm (0.78-0.78 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
TMAG_20091113Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.