Cycas conferta
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Family Cycadaceae
Taxonomy: Cycas conferta Chirgwin
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 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (2), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2023 (19), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 48 records in 8 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]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 190 mm (110-270 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 85 mm (70-100 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 653.75 mm (70-1100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 30.75 cm (20-45 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: 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): 39.5 mm (35-42 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 29.5 mm (27-31 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: ABRS_1981]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 12 | 19 | 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/. |
| ABRS_2023 | 8 | 13 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| ABRS_1981 | 5 | 5 | 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/. |
| 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. |
| 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. |