AusTraits

Eidothea zoexylocarya

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Eidothea zoexylocarya A.W.Douglas & B.Hyland

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gen. Nov. (AQ434762) sp. (Mt Bartle Frere B.G.Briggs 7416) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Genus nov. (5) sp. 'Bartle Frere' (B.Hyland 3505 RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Genus nov. (5) sp. Mt Bartle Frere (B.Hyland 3505 RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Genus nov. 1 1 (Bartle Frere; B.Hyland 3505 RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Proteaceae sp. (=RFK/3505) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Proteaceae sp. (RFK 3505) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Proteaceae sp. Mt Bartle Frere (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Jordan_2020 (14), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 91 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 44 mm (21-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 44.5 mm (18-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 47.5 mm (30-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (45-145 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 36.25 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1); spathulate (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnyyyy (2); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11600 mg (5200-18000 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 28 mm (16-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 30 mm (15-45 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 35 m (20-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231219Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20201414G. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221313L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Chen_201711Chen, 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.