Corypha utan

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Corypha utan Lam.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Borassus sylvestris Giseke (taxonomic synonym)
Corypha elata Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
Corypha sylvestris (Giseke) Mart. (taxonomic synonym)
Taliera sylvestris (Giseke) Blume (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Brock_1993 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_5 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 75 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 23.33 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 2500 mm (2500-2500 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2500 mm (2000-3000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 362.5 cm (250-400 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_division (categorical): palmately_compound (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): apical_buds (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 15.5 mm (14-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 15.5 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 22.5 m (20-25 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	12	17	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993	5	5	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_5	1	2	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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.