Araucaria cunninghamii

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Family Araucariaceae

Taxonomy: Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie

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: Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (4), Kew_2019_1 (7), Kew_2019_4 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2024 (9), RadfordSmith_2024 (27), Richards_2008 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 118 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 60 mm (50-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RadfordSmith_2024]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 16.45 mm2 (6.92-42.08 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 4.42 mg (3.35-6.78 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 182.31 g/m2 (134.45-266.99 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.53 g/g (0.47-0.58 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1); needle (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; Richards_2008]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Richards_2008]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1); imbricate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Richards_2008]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Richards_2008; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024; Richards_2008]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Richards_2008]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: Butler_2004; Kew_2019_5; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19.77 mg/g (16.8-22.9 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.88 {delta}[ppth] (-31.57--30.33 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Richards_2008]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 283.3 mg (150-388 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.44-0.57 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 50 m (50-50 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	12	27	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. 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.
Richards_2008	8	14	A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
McCarthy_2017	2	10	J. 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.
NHNSW_2024	8	9	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	7	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. 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.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Ilic_2000	1	4	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_4	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.