Allocasuarina rigida subsp. rigida

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Allocasuarina rigida (Miq.) L.A.S.Johnson subsp. rigida

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

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (6), ANBG_2019 (2), Clarke_2009 (9), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 50 records in 11 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 (3) [sources: Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.15 mm (3-7.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): samara (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2) [sources: Clarke_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.19 mg (1.09-1.28 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.25 m (0.5-4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	7	10	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Clarke_2009	5	9	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
ABRS_2023	5	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	5	6	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_1981	3	5	B. 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_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.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	1	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.