Callitris intratropica

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Family Cupressaceae

Taxonomy: Callitris intratropica R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callitris columellaris var. intratropica (R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.) Silba (nomenclatural synonym)
Callitris columellaris var. microcarpa (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Govaerts (taxonomic synonym)
Callitris robusta var. intratropica (R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.) Ewart & O.B.Davies (nomenclatural synonym)
Callitris robusta var. microcarpa (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela intratropica Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela intratropica R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela robusta var. microcarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), ANBG_2019 (4), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), Jagdish_2020 (4), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lawes_2012 (60), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (4), Prior_2003 (125), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 277 records in 22 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 124 mm2 (124-124 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 256.46 g/m2 (200.52-449 g/m2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.38-0.51 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.3 g/g (0.95-1.64 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); triangular (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Prior_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): serotiny_high (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (2); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.14 mg/g (7.3-12.5 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.6 mg/g (0.51-0.9 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 7.17 mg (7-7.46 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jagdish_2020]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 25.5 m (18-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Prior_2003	15	125	L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Lawes_2012	1	60	M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NTH_2023	9	10	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	7	9	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	7	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wright_2008	8	8	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
ABRS_1981	4	5	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/.
Brock_1993	5	5	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_2019	1	4	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Jagdish_2020	2	4	A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.