AusTraits

Grevillea juniperina

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea juniperina R.Br.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, ACT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), ANBG_2019 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cunningham_1999 (15), Duncan_1998 (12), Jordan_2020 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (4), Pickup_2021 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 59 traits from 106 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); pink (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_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): 12.7 mm2 (12.7-12.7 mm2) [sources: Duncan_1998]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (5-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.4 mm (0.5-6 mm) [sources: Cunningham_1999; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 1.7 mg (1.7-1.7 mg) [sources: Duncan_1998]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 163.04 g/m2 (130.38-195.69 g/m2) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Duncan_1998]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.4-0.5 g/g) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Duncan_1998]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); subulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Cunningham_1999; Duncan_1998; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cunningham_1999]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Cunningham_1999; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1); vertebrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnyyyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 27.1 mg (27.1-27.1 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Cunningham_19991515S. A. Cunningham, B. Summerhayes, and M. Westoby. “Evolutionary divergences in leaf structure and chemistry, comparing rainfall and soil nutrient gradients”. Ecological Monographs 69 (1999), pp. 569-588. doi: [10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0569:EDILSA]2.0.CO;2](https://doi.org/10.1890%2F0012-9615%281999%29069%5B0569%3AEDILSA%5D2.0.CO%3B2).
ABRS_2023812Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Duncan_19981212D. H. Duncan. “Unpublished data: Structural basis of variation in leaf mass per area in three plant clades, Macquarie University”. 1998.
NHNSW_2023811N. 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/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
NSWFRD_201444B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
Jordan_202033G. 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.
Pickup_202133M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
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.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.