Banksia sphaerocarpa var. dolichostyla

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Banksia sphaerocarpa var. dolichostyla A.S.George

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Banksia dolichostyla (A.S.George) K.R.Thiele (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (6), Barrett_2009 (2), He_2011 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), SPRAT_2025_2 (9), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 48 records in 13 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; He_2011; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 82.5 mm (60-105 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.2-1.5 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: He_2011; Yang_2023]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; He_2011; WAH_2023_2; Yang_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; He_2011; Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 19.96 mg (19.6-20.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (1-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SPRAT_2025_2	5	9	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
ABRS_2023	6	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Yang_2023	6	6	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
He_2011	4	4	T. He, B. B. Lamont, and K. S. Downes. “Banksia born to burn”. New Phytologist 191.1 (2011), pp. 184-196. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03663.x.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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/.
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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	2	2	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.