Calamus radicalis

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Calamus radicalis H.Wendl. & Drude

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Palmijuncus radicalis (H.Wendl. & Drude) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Cheesman_2020 (8), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (44), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 93 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.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); cream (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 8140 mm2 (8140-8140 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaflet_area (numerical): 542.02 mm2 (440.6-693.8 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): 60.18 g/m2 (33.68-85.4 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.42 g/g (0.42-0.43 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (3); palmoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): hooks (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.47 mg/g (16.47-16.47 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.42 {delta}[ppth] (-28.42--28.42 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Cheesman_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.23 mg/mm3 (0.22-0.25 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	44	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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	9	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.
Cheesman_2020	8	8	A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
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.
Gallagher_2012	3	3	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.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_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.