Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana

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Family Casuarinaceae

Taxonomy: Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. subsp. cunninghamiana

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Casuarina equisetifolia var. microcarpa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW, ACT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (12), NSWFRD_2014 (10), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Yang_2023 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 76 records in 14 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 (3); resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): samara (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.4-0.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): 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 (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.33 mg (0.33-0.33 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 22.33 m (5-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	8	12	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	8	10	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2023	6	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.
Yang_2023	3	6	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
NHNSW_2022	5	5	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.