Cordyline fruticosa
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Family Asparagaceae
Taxonomy: Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A.Chev.
Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Asparagus terminalis L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Calodracon terminalis (L.) Planch. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Convallaria fruticosa L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Cordyline guilfoylei Linden ex Lem. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cordyline hedychioides F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cordyline jacquinii Kunth (nomenclatural synonym)
- Cordyline terminalis (L.) Kunth (nomenclatural synonym)
- Cordyline terminalis var. hedychioides (F.Muell.) Baker (taxonomic synonym)
- Dracaena terminalis (L.) L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), ANBG_2019 (4), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 45 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.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 525 mm (250-800 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 85 mm (50-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 14 cm (8-20 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3.75-3.75 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.08 mm (3.08-3.08 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3.75 m (2-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 14 | 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. |
| ANBG_2019 | 4 | 4 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Chen_2017 | 4 | 4 | Chen, 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_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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_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. |
| ABRS_1981 | 2 | 2 | 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |