Casuarina equisetifolia subsp. equisetifolia
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Family Casuarinaceae
Taxonomy: Casuarina equisetifolia L. subsp. equisetifolia
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Casuarina equisetifolia L. var. equisetifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
- Casuarina equisetifolia var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), NTH_2014 (10), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 36 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): samara (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.5-0.7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
- leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 16 m (7-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2014 | 8 | 10 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| ABRS_2023 | 6 | 9 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |