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Allocasuarina monilifera

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina monilifera (L.A.S.Johnson) L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Casuarina monilifera L.A.S.Johnson (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Casuarina sp. 4 (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Casuarina distyla Vent. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (6), ANBG_2019 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Everingham_2020 (404), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Nicholson_2017 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (3), TMAG_2009 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (28), Wright_2000 (5), Zieminska_2013 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 72 traits from 541 records in 21 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (1); samara (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; TMAG_2009; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 117.14 mm2 (77.2-157.08 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 5.25 mm (1-11 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.93 mm (0.6-1.2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 412.7 g/m2 (412.7-412.7 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (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_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • seed_viability (numerical): 0.41 {count}/{count} (0.39-0.43 {count}/{count}) [sources: Everingham_2020]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.2 mg/g (8.2-8.2 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.26 mg/g (0.26-0.26 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.48 {delta}[ppth] (-26.48--26.48 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.3 mg (0.1-2.97 mg) [sources: Everingham_2020; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.82 mm (1.8-4.09 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Everingham_2020; Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (0.78-2.4 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Everingham_2020; Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); winged (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 836.87 {count}/mm2 (726.63-984.02 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 15.35 um (13.41-16.43 um) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.18 mm2/mm2 (0.1-0.23 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.92 m (1.5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Everingham_20206404S. E. Everingham, C. A. Offord, M. E. B. Sabot, and A. T. Moles. “Time travelling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change”. Ecology 102 (2020), p. e03272. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3272.
Zieminska_20131030K. Ziemińska, D. W. Butler, S. M. Gleason, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms”. AoB PLANTS 5 (2013), p. plt046. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt046.
Westoby_20142828S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
TMAG_20091113Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Nicholson_201728A. Nicholson, L. D. Prior, G. L. W. Perry, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “High post-fire mortality of resprouting woody plants in Tasmanian Mediterranean-type vegetation”. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (2017), pp. 532-537. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF16211.
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.
ABRS_202356Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_198124B. 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/.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Mokany_201511K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.