Austromuellera trinervia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Austromuellera trinervia C.T.White

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (27), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (10), Chen_2017 (9), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_2008 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Jordan_2015 (6), Jordan_2020 (20), Kooyman_2011 (15), Sams_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 91 traits from 205 records in 20 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): 175 mm (140-210 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (55-60 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 23228.5 mm2 (3550-42907 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Jordan_2020]
leaf_length (numerical): 169.72 mm (75-500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 40.33 mm (12-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 10.5 cm (5-16 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 107.78 g/m2 (64.1-149.66 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Grubb_2008; Jordan_2020; Sams_2017; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.4 g/g (1.4-1.4 g/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lamina_division (categorical): pinnately_compound (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 520.87 {count}/mm2 (520.87-520.87 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; 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]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.04 mg/g (11-15.08 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Grubb_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.59 {delta}[ppth] (-31.77--31.4 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 123.12 mm (40-190 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 35.83 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.59 mg/mm3 (0.46-0.75 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 49.03 {count}/mm2 (10.88-102.07 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 78.7 um (43.36-110.77 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.13 mm2/mm2 (0.11-0.15 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15.33 m (10-18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Zieminska_2015	12	36	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	21	26	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_2020	20	20	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	11	15	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	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_2020	10	10	A. 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.
Sams_2017	9	10	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.
Chen_2017	9	9	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.
Jordan_2015	4	6	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.
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.
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_2008	3	3	P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	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.
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.