Astrotricha floccosa

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Astrotricha floccosa DC.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Astrotricha floccosa DC. var. floccosa (nomenclatural synonym)
Astrotricha floccosa var. angustifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Astrotricha floccosa var. brevifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Astrotricha floccosa var. subpeltata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Astrotriche floccosa Benth. (orthographic variant)
Astrotriche floccosa var. angustifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Astrotriche floccosa var. subpeltata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Bolax floccipes Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Bolax floccoides Sieber ex DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Falster_2003 (3), Grootemaat_2015 (225), Grootemaat_2017_2 (28), Hughes_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kubiak_2009 (2), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (9), Niinemets_2009 (74), Onoda_2010 (32), Pickup_2005 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Tsujii_2023 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2002 (83), Wright_2009 (39), Zanne_2007 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 113 traits from 553 records in 21 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 (1) [sources: Kubiak_2009]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4091.02 mm2 (1720-6612 mm2) [sources: Falster_2003; Grootemaat_2015; Leishman_1995; Niinemets_2009; Pickup_2005; Wright_2002]
leaf_length (numerical): 154.5 mm (75-270 mm) [sources: Grootemaat_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 33.53 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Grootemaat_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 204.1 mg (137-299 mg) [sources: Grootemaat_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 70.69 g/m2 (48.08-106.96 g/m2) [sources: Grootemaat_2015; Leishman_1995; Niinemets_2009; Pickup_2005; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002; Zanne_2007]
leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 11.83 mm2/mg (11.83-11.83 mm2/mg) [sources: Pickup_2005]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.5 g/g (1.5-1.5 g/g) [sources: Grootemaat_2015]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Falster_2003; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 31.3 deg (31.3-31.3 deg) [sources: Falster_2003]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.86 mg/g (11.34-20.8 mg/g) [sources: Grootemaat_2017_2; Niinemets_2009; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.61 mg/g (0.41-0.88 mg/g) [sources: Grootemaat_2017_2; Niinemets_2009; Tsujii_2023; Wright_2002]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.93 {delta}[ppth] (-30.1--28.17 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Niinemets_2009; Wright_2002]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 9.29 umol{CO2}/m2/s (8.95-9.95 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.15 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.13-0.17 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Niinemets_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.36 mg (2.87-4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.46 mg/mm3 (0.35-0.54 mg/mm3) [sources: Onoda_2010; Pickup_2005; Zanne_2007]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Pickup_2005; Zanne_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.67 m (3-4 m) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Grootemaat_2015	17	225	S. Grootemaat, I. J. Wright, P. M. Bodegom, J. H. C. Cornelissen, and W. K. Cornwell. “Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species”. Functional Ecology 29.11 (2015), pp. 1486-1497. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12449.
Wright_2002	34	83	I. J. Wright and M. Westoby. “Leaves at low versus high rainfall: Coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology”. New Phytologist 155 (2002), pp. 403-416. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00479.x.
Niinemets_2009	26	74	Ü. Niinemets, I. J. Wright, and J. R. Evans. “Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation”. Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (2009), pp. 2433-2449. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp045.
Wright_2009	13	39	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Leaf pigment and reflectance data for sclerophylls, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Onoda_2010	7	32	Y. Onoda, A. E. Richards, and M. Westoby. “The relationship between stem biomechanics and wood density is modified by rainfall in 32 Australian woody plant species”. New Phytologist 185.2 (2009), pp. 493-501. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03088.x.
Grootemaat_2017_2	7	28	S. Grootemaat, I. J. Wright, P. M. van Bodegom, and J. H. C. Cornelissen. “Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds”. Oikos 126.10 (2017), pp. 1428-1438. doi: 10.1111/oik.03886.
Zanne_2007	6	18	A. Zanne. “Unpublished data: Hydraulic traits for NSW plant species from four field sites, Macquarie University”. 2007.
NHNSW_2014_2	8	10	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024	7	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/.
Tsujii_2023	8	8	Y. Tsujii, B. J. Atwell, H. Lambers, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf phosphorus fractions vary with leaf economic traits among 35 Australian woody species”. New Phytologist 241.5 (2024), pp. 1985-1997. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.19513.
Pickup_2005	5	5	M. Pickup, M. Westoby, and A. Basden. “Dry mass costs of deploying leaf area in relation to leaf size”. Functional Ecology 19.1 (2005), pp. 88-97. doi: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00927.x.
Leishman_1995	4	4	M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Falster_2003	3	3	D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Leaf size and angle vary widely across species: what consequences for light interception?”. New Phytologist 158.3 (2003), pp. 509-525. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00765.x.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_2009	2	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Leishman_1993	1	1	M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.