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Cordyline stricta

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Charlwoodia stricta Gopp. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl. var. stricta (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dracaena stricta Sims (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Terminalis stricta (Sims) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Baker_2019 (2), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (7), Leishman_2007 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (13), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (74), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 174 records in 19 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_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.17 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 12 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (3); purple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 11899.05 mm2 (1408-21330 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 376.62 mm (190-500 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15.5 mm (10-24 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 456.86 mg (239.38-674.33 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 135.4 g/m2 (85.69-185.11 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_2007; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.4 g/g (0.4-0.4 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.49 g/g (1.48-1.5 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 16.5 deg (0-45 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Leishman_2007; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Baker_2019; Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 7.59 mg (6.6-9.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.4 m (2-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Smith_19961774B. 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.
RBGV_20231318VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20241013N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_2810Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Leishman_199577M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Leishman_200777M. R. Leishman, T. Haslehurst, A. Ares, and Z. Baruch. “Leaf trait relationships of native and invasive plants: community- and global-scale comparisons”. New Phytologist 176.3 (2007), pp. 635-643. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02189.x.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
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.
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.
Cooper_201311W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.