Grevillea formosa

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea formosa McGill.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Grevillea sp. 'Mt Brockman' (taxonomic synonym)
Grevillea sp. aff. pteridifolia (Deaf Adder Gorge) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Brock_1993 (11), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Jordan_2020 (3), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 83 records in 17 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): fire_killed (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (11-16 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_area (numerical): 2357 mm2 (2357-2357 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 95.83 mm (40-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.7-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 207.21 g/m2 (207.21-207.21 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (2); yyyynnnnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 4.6 mg/g (4.6-4.6 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.28 mg/g (0.28-0.28 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1); winged (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.64 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	10	14	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/.
Brock_1993	9	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_2023	8	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wright_2008	9	9	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.