Grevillea pachylostyla

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea pachylostyla (McGill.) Olde & Marriott

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Grevillea sp. (Rock Grevillea) (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Grevillea willisii subsp. pachylostyla McGill. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Pickup_2021 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 53 records in 12 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 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_length (numerical): 24 mm (12-40 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 17.67 mm (3-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): triangular (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; McGlone_2015]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	8	10	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
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.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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/.
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.
Pickup_2021	1	2	M. 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.
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.