Cycas calcicola

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Family Cycadaceae

Taxonomy: Cycas calcicola Maconochie

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2023 (16), Brock_1993 (9), Chen_2017 (2), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2023 (13), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 51 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 525.83 mm (50-1350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
petiole_length (numerical): 22.75 cm (10-33 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody_like_stem (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 31 mm (25-38 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 27.75 mm (23-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	9	16	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	8	13	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/.
Brock_1993	7	9	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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/.
Chen_2017	2	2	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.
NTH_2014	2	2	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.