Allocasuarina muelleriana

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina muelleriana (Miq.) L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Casuarina muelleriana Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Casuarina suberosa var. muelleri Miq. (orthographic variant)
Casuarina suberosa var. muelleriana (Miq.) Miq. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Draper_2023 (4), McGlone_2015 (6), Moles_2011 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (6), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Staples_2019 (80), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 147 records in 17 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 (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3); monoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; SAH_2022]

fruit morphology

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) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 83.8 mm2 (53.44-194.22 mm2) [sources: Moles_2011; Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 4.53 mm (0.6-11 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.82 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 31.5 mg (16.4-65.5 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 271.62 g/m2 (213.53-364.55 g/m2) [sources: Moles_2011; Staples_2019]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.49 g/g (0.49-0.49 g/g) [sources: Moles_2011]
leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Moles_2011]
leaf_hairs_immature_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Moles_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Moles_2011; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
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]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.68-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.92 m (0.5-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Moles_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Staples_2019	4	80	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.
ABRS_2023	8	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Moles_2011	7	7	A. T. Moles, I. R. Wallis, W. J. Foley, D. I. Warton, J. C. Stegen, A. J. Bisigato, L. Cella-Pizarro, C. J. Clark, P. S. Cohen, W. K. Cornwell, W. Edwards, R. Ejrnaes, T. Gonzales-Ojeda, B. J. Graae, G. Hay, F. C. Lumbwe, B. Magana-Rodriguez, B. D. Moore, P. L. Peri, J. R. Poulsen, R. Veldtman, H. von Zeipel, N. R. Andrew, S. L. Boulter, E. T. Borer, F. F. Campon, M. Coll, A. G. Farji-Brener, J. D. Gabriel, E. Jurado, L. A. Kyhn, B. Low, C. P. H. Mulder, K. Reardon-Smith, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, E. W. Seabloom, P. A. Vesk, A. van Cauter, M. S. Waldram, Z. Zheng, P. G. Blendinger, B. J. Enquist, J. M. Facelli, T. Knight, J. D. Majer, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. McQuillan, and L. D. Prior. “Putting plant resistance traits on the map: A test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes”. New Phytologist 191.3 (2011), pp. 777-788. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03732.x.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
SAH_2023	4	6	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
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.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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.
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.
Schmidt_1993	1	2	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.