Grevillea glauca

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea glauca Banks & Sol. ex Knight

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Grevillea gibbosa R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Grevillia glauca Knight (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Jagdish_2020 (13), Jordan_2020 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (32), Zieminska_2015 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 102 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
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): 32 mm (24-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; 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): 2764 mm2 (2764-2764 mm2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 130 mm (60-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (10-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 152.18 g/m2 (151.6-152.75 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spindly (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.76 mg/g (7.76-7.76 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.39 mg/g (0.39-0.39 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.6 {delta}[ppth] (-27.6--27.6 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 86.48 mg (72.77-100.19 mg) [sources: Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.63 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2014; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 103.83 {count}/mm2 (103.83-103.83 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 40.01 um (40.01-40.01 um) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.13 mm2/mm2 (0.13-0.13 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (2-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2014	30	32	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
ABRS_2023	9	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jagdish_2020	2	13	A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
Zieminska_2015	12	12	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Jordan_2020	8	8	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.
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.
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/.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.