Cocos nucifera
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Family Arecaceae
Taxonomy: Cocos nucifera L.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): CoI, ChI, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_4 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (23). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 65 records in 11 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]
- flower_diameter (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.3-0.9 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 237.5 mm (100-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 140 mm (80-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 140 mm (80-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 4150 mm (1300-7000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; 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]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 402000 mg (167000-617000 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 90 mm (80-100 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 32.5 m (30-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 20 | 23 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| ABRS_2023 | 9 | 13 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 4 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_3 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_4 | 1 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Kew_2019_5 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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. |