AusTraits

Cenarrhenes nitida

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Cenarrhenes nitida Labill.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (6), Clarke_2015 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (8), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (18), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), Kooyman_2011 (12), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (70), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 91 traits from 200 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 1 cm (1-1 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2016.36 mm2 (753.58-3452 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Mokany_2015; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 108.05 mm (20-160 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 29.3 mm (15-43 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 289.58 mg (289.58-289.58 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 186.56 g/m2 (128.54-226 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.42 g/g (0.42-0.42 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.4 g/g (1.4-1.4 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 22.5 deg (0-45 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 210.18 {count}/mm2 (210.18-210.18 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2007; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 6.24 mg/g (6.24-6.24 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.28 mg/g (0.28-0.28 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.75 {delta}[ppth] (-32.75--32.75 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 235.3 mg (235.3-235.3 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (4-15 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.73-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Smith_19961770B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222426L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_20201818G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Jordan_200788G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Chen_201766Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Kirkpatrick_202055J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.