AusTraits

Benstonea lauterbachii

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Family Pandanaceae

Taxonomy: Benstonea lauterbachii (K.Schum. & Warb.) Callm. & Buerki

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pandanus lauterbachii K.Schum. & Warb. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pandanus copelandii Merr. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 30 records in 6 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (2); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 17.5 m (15-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023913Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_201379W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.