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Allocasuarina humilis

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina humilis (Otto & A.Dietr.) L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Casuarina humilis Otto & A.Dietr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Casuarina humilis Otto & A.Dietr. var. humilis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Casuarina humilis var. macrocarpa Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Casuarina preissiana Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Casuarina selaginoides Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Casuarina tephrosperma Miq. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (12), ANBG_2019 (8), Barrett_2009 (1), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (2), Enright_2014 (33), Gosper_2012 (6), Harvey_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), Mitchell_2008 (12), Munroe_2019 (1), Pate_1990 (4), Schmidt_1993 (2), Shedley_2007 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Standish_2019 (6), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), Tsakalos_2022 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (8), vanderMoezel_1987 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 167 records in 30 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): resprouts (26) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017; Pate_1990; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (18) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Pate_1990]
  • fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 36 mo (36-36 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2); monoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): samara (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; Schmidt_1993; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1); non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (3); ectomycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyynnnnn (1); nnnnyyyyyyyn (1); nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4); soil_seedbank_absent (2) [sources: Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017; Standish_2019]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Shedley_2007; Tsakalos_2022]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.81 {delta}[ppth] (-26.81--26.81 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Mitchell_2008]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.23 mg (2.06-2.91 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.94 mm (4.94-4.94 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.83 mm (3.83-3.83 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); winged (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 1.18 mg/mm3 (1.18-1.18 mg/mm3) [sources: Mitchell_2008]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0.01 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0.01-0.01 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Mitchell_2008]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Enright_2014333N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306.
Tsakalos_20201818J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023812Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Mitchell_20081212P. J. Mitchell, E. J. Veneklaas, H. Lambers, and S. S. O. Burgess. “Using multiple trait associations to define hydraulic functional types in plant communities of south-western Australia”. Oecologia 158 (2008), pp. 385-397. doi: 10.1007/s00442-008-1152-5.
ANBG_201968Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wheeler_200278J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Gosper_201266C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Harvey_201766J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
Standish_201966R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_244N. 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_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Pate_199044J. S. Pate, R. H. Froend, B. J. Bowen, A. Hansen, and J. Kuo. “Seedling growth and storage characteristics of seeder and resprouter species of Mediterranean-type ecosystems of SW Australia”. Annals of Botany 65.6 (1990), pp. 585-601. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087976.
Shedley_200744E. 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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Clarke_201522P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_199322S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Tsakalos_202222J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
vanderMoezel_198722P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Barrett_200911S. 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.
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_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.