AusTraits

Cycas pruinosa

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Family Cycadaceae

Taxonomy: Cycas pruinosa Maconochie

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

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (2), NTH_2023 (18), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 53 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 340 mm (200-480 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 90 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 530.25 mm (110-1250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 15.5 cm (8-23 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 33.25 mm (30-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 30 mm (28-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.95 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231018D. 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_2023815Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_234Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_198133B. 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_201722Chen, 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.