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Archontophoenix alexandrae

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Archontophoenix alexandrae (F.Muell.) H.Wendl. & Drude

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae (F.Muell.) H.Wendl. & Drude var. alexandrae (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae var. beatricae L.H.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Archontophoenix alexandrae var. schizanthera H.Wendl. & Drude (taxonomic synonym)
  • Archontophoenix beatricae (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Archontophoenix beatricae (F.Muell.) Martelli (taxonomic synonym)
  • Archontophoenix veitchii H.Wendl. & Drude (taxonomic synonym)
  • Jessenia glazioviana Dammer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptychosperma alexandrae F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ptychosperma beatricae F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptychosperma veitchii H.Wendl. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), ATRP_2020 (1), Cheesman_2020 (29), Cooper_2013 (14), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (2), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 104 records in 13 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (4); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (2) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.16 mg/g (12.06-15.35 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.52 {delta}[ppth] (-35.53--26.48 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 282.85 mg (250-315.7 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10.25 mm (8-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.71 mg/mm3 (0.59-0.83 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Metcalfe_2009]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cheesman_20201229A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Metcalfe_20091818E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221216L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_20231012Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Kew_2019_512Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Ilic_200011J. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.