Benstonea monticola

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Family Pandanaceae

Taxonomy: Benstonea monticola (F.Muell.) Callm. & Buerki

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pandanus monticola F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pandanus pluvisilvaticus H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (19), RBGK_2014 (1), Wells_2012 (86), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 135 records in 9 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 24.25 mm (15-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 71882.89 mm2 (1754.49-100038.16 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 1600 mm (1200-2000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 4030.54 mg (93.15-9346.4 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 72.96 g/m2 (53.09-93.43 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.31 g/g (0.22-0.36 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (2); shrub (1); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (1); cassowaries (2); mammals (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17 mg (17-17 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.37 mg/mm3 (0.25-0.47 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8 m (6-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	86	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
ABRS_2023	7	11	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	8	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.