Calamus moti

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Calamus moti F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Calamus motii K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (12), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Metcalfe_2009 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (55), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 112 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 11 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): cream (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 11250 mm2 (11250-11250 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaflet_area (numerical): 758.99 mm2 (595.87-860.63 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 1750 mm (500-3000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 40.58 g/m2 (37.92-43.18 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.4-0.48 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (3); palmoid (1) [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): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 133.5 mg (107-160 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.45 mg/mm3 (0.26-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 45 m (45-45 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	55	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	17	17	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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	10	12	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	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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.