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Cordyline congesta

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steud.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Charlwoodia angustifolia (Kunth) Gopp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Charlwoodia congesta Sweet (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Charlwoodia rigidifolia K.Koch & C.D.Bouché (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cordyline angustifolia Kunth (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cordyline rigidifolia K.Koch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cordyline stricta var. angustifolia (Kunth) Asch. & Graebn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cordyline stricta var. congesta (Sweet) Asch. & Graebn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cordyline stricta var. rigidifolia (K.Koch) Asch. & Graebn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dracaena congesta (Sweet) Schult. & Schult.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dracaena congesta Sweet (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Baker_2019 (2), Butler_2004 (4), Chen_2017 (4), Fonseca_2000 (9), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 74 records in 12 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): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (2); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 4570.4 mm2 (3235.5-5905.3 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 350 mm (300-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25.32 mm (15.5-40 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 505.5 mg (314-697 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 15 cm (10-20 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 107.37 g/m2 (97.09-117.65 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20241216N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Fonseca_200059C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Butler_200444D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
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.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Baker_201922A. Baker. “Unpublished data: Post-fire fire-response surveys on the NSW north coast, Southern Cross University”. 2019.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.