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Athrotaxis cupressoides

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Family Cupressaceae

Taxonomy: Athrotaxis cupressoides D.Don

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cunninghamia cupressoides (D.Don) Siebold & Zucc. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), Kew_2019_1 (6), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 51 records in 11 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 14.14 mm2 (14.14-14.14 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 2.83 mm (1.5-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.92 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): imbricate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.8 mg (0.91-2.59 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15.5 m (12-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_116Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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.