Athertonia diversifolia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Athertonia diversifolia (C.T.White) L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Helicia diversifolia C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)
Hicksbeachia diversifolia (C.T.White) Sleumer (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (27), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Ilic_2000 (4), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (19), Kanowski_2000 (25), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 89 traits from 153 records in 19 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): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 38.5 mm (36-41 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 35.5 mm (33-38 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 22.5 mm (19-26 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1); pink (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 40505.23 mm2 (15000-66010.45 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kanowski_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 300 mm (70-800 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 120.83 mm (35-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 115.81 g/m2 (94.08-137.17 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (1); obtriangular (1); spathulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 266.85 {count}/mm2 (266.85-266.85 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1); non-flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (2); nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.29 mg/g (12.29-12.29 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.77 mg/g (0.77-0.77 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1650 mg (1650-1650 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
seed_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (30-35 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 30 mm (28-32 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.48-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 24.5 m (8-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	27	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kanowski_2000	25	25	J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	18	22	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_2020	19	19	G. 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.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_2017	6	6	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Jordan_2015	4	4	G. 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_2006	4	4	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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_1996	3	3	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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/.
Chen_2017	1	1	Chen, 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.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from 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.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.