Austromuellera valida

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Austromuellera valida B.Hyland

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Austromuellera sp. 'Mt Lewis' (B.Hyland RFK 2975) (taxonomic synonym)
Austromuellera sp. (Mt Lewis B.P.Hyland RFK2975) (taxonomic synonym)
Austromuellera sp. (Mt Lewis BH 2975RFK) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (9), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Jordan_2020 (7), Kooyman_2011 (12), SinghRamesh_2019 (34), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 109 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.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 125 mm (100-150 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 50 mm (40-60 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (70-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 52.5 mm (40-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 7.25 cm (4-10.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lamina_division (categorical): bipinnate (1); trifoliate (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg/g (11-11 mg/g) [sources: SinghRamesh_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.27 mg/g (0.26-0.28 mg/g) [sources: SinghRamesh_2019]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.1 {delta}[ppth] (-28.5--27.7 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: SinghRamesh_2019]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 86.25 mm (25-120 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 39.17 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 16.67 m (10-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SinghRamesh_2019	17	34	A. S. Ramesh and A. W. C. &. L. Cernusak. Far North Queensland, Montane Tree Leaf Chemistry Data, 2019. Version 1. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network.. 2019. doi: 10.25901/e1yb-ea83.
ABRS_2023	13	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	12	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.
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_2020	7	7	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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.