Banksia conferta

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Banksia conferta A.S.George

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Banksia conferta A.S.George subsp. conferta (nomenclatural synonym)
Banksia conferta A.S.George var. conferta (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (36), ANBG_2019 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Jordan_2020 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), Yang_2023 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 80 records in 12 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

post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10.75 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4 mm (2-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (35-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 23.5 mm (7-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2) [sources: Yang_2023]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10.45 mg (10.45-10.45 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 11.56 mm (7.62-17 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.04 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_1981]
seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1); ovoid (1); winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	18	36	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	3	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Yang_2023	3	6	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
ABRS_1981	4	5	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/.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Jordan_2020	5	5	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.
Wright_2000	5	5	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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.