Grevillea benthamiana

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea benthamiana McGill.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Grevillea sp. (Fergusson River) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Brock_1993 (7), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2020 (3), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 70 records in 13 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]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17.25 mm (14-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (25-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.5-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); linear (2); narrowly_triangular (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): imbricate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Jordan_2020; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (2); nnnyyyyyyyyy (1); nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 13 mm (13-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.33 m (2-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	12	17	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	10	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993	6	7	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Chen_2017	5	5	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	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_2020	3	3	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.
NTH_2022	3	3	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/.
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.