Caryota albertii
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Family Arecaceae
Taxonomy: Caryota albertii F.Muell. ex H.Wendl. & Drude
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Caryota alberti H.Wendl. & Drude (orthographic variant)
- Caryota rumphiana var. alberti F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
- Caryota rumphiana var. albertii (F.Muell. ex H.Wendl. & Drude) F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
- Caryota rumphiana var. albertii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
- Caryota rumphiana var. australiensis Becc. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Caryota rumphiana Mart. (misapplied)
- Caryota urens L. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Cooper_2013 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 44 records in 7 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
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 22.75 mm (17-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 27.25 mm (20-33 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 3650 mm (300-7000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5000 mm (5000-5000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (15-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 11 | 14 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 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. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 5 | 8 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |