Callitris preissii

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Family Cupressaceae

Taxonomy: Callitris preissii Miq.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callitris preisii Jessup (orthographic variant)
Callitris preissii Miq. subsp. preissii (nomenclatural synonym)
Callitris preissii Miq. var. preissii (nomenclatural synonym)
Callitris propinqua Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Callitris robusta F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Callitris robusta R.Br. ex F.M.Bailey var. robusta (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Callitris siussii R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
Callitris tuberculata R.Br. ex R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela robusta A.Cunn. ex Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela robusta A.Cunn. ex Endl. var. robusta (taxonomic synonym)
Frenela robusta Mirb. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (8), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (2), Barrett_2009 (55), Fonseca_2000 (9), Gosper_2012 (6), Kew_2019_1 (23), Kew_2019_6 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (11), Shedley_2007 (1), Staples_2019 (5), Sweedman_2006 (6), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 181 records in 20 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 (10) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (8) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 24 mm (13-35 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 27 mm (15-42 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 23.6 mm2 (22.9-24.3 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.2 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 7.5 mg (6-9 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 321.95 g/m2 (243.9-400 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (10); tree (12) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Fonseca_2000; Gosper_2012; SAH_2022; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (9); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.97 mg (6.13-28.79 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.75 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12 m (1-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Barrett_2009	6	55	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Kew_2019_1	1	23	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
ABRS_2023	8	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023	9	11	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Fonseca_2000	5	9	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
ABRS_2022	4	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Sweedman_2006	1	6	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Staples_2019	1	5	T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
ABRS_1981	3	4	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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	1	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Shedley_2007	1	1	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.