Grevillea nematophylla

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea nematophylla F.Muell.

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

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), Burrows_2008_2 (2), Burrows_2020 (2), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Jordan_2020 (11), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (5), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 80 records in 22 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: NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): 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): 18 mm (16-20 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 190 mm (80-300 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): strap-shaped (1); terete (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1); mammal (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_1998]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.83 m (1-10 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Jordan_2020	11	11	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.
NHNSW_2023	7	10	N. 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/.
SAH_2023	9	10	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	B. 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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
Burrows_2008_2	2	2	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	2	2	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.