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Alloxylon pinnatum

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Alloxylon pinnatum (Maiden & Betche) P.H.Weston & Crisp

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Embothrium pinnatum (Maiden & Betche) C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Embothrium wickhamii var. pinnatum Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oreocallis pinnata (Maiden & Betche) Sleumer (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (6), Cooper_2013 (12), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (16), Kooyman_2011 (12), McCarthy_2017 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 109 records in 16 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 59.25 mm (7-100 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); follicle (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4697.98 mm2 (984.18-12156.48 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020; McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 186.67 mm (80-500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.67 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 124.96 g/m2 (93.62-140.47 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020; McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 98.2 {count}/mm2 (98.2-98.2 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (2); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 18.25 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.53 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 24.25 m (24-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231118Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20201616G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
NHNSW_20231015N. 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/.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111012R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Chen_201766Chen, 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.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
McCarthy_201735J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.