Eidothea hardeniana

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Eidothea hardeniana P.H.Weston & Kooyman

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eidothea sp. Nightcap Range (P.H.Weston 2469) (nomenclatural synonym)
Eidothea sp. nov. (P.H.Weston 2464) (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (18), Kooyman_2011 (14), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (28), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 78 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): partial_resprouting (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 34 mm (27-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 30.25 mm (23-37 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 30.25 mm (23-37 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (1); pyrene (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1969 mm2 (1969-1969 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (80-135 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 29.5 mm (17-42 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 204.04 g/m2 (204.04-204.04 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 128.94 {count}/mm2 (128.94-128.94 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 30.5 mm (27-34 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 30.5 mm (27-34 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 33.75 m (15-40 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	15	28	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Jordan_2020	18	18	G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Jordan_2015	4	4	G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.