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Grevillea pteridifolia

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Grevillea pteridifolia Knight

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Grevillea chrysodendron R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea chrysodendrum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea mitchellii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea pteridifolia Knight var. pteridifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Grevillea pteridifolia var. mitchellii (Hook.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Grevillea pteridifolia var. typica Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Grevillea pteridiifolia Chippend. (orthographic variant)
  • Grevillia pteridifolia Knight (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (11), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (1), Dong_2017 (8), Ilic_2000 (1), Jordan_2020 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lawes_2012 (22), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (1), Rice_1991 (1), Richards_2008 (6), Rosell_2014 (8), Schmidt_2003 (33), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Soper_2014 (24), Tomlinson_2013 (19), Tomlinson_2019 (267), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (9), Wright_2008 (16), Wright_2019 (458), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 103 traits from 987 records in 39 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 (1); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]
  • 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): 17.33 mm (14-21 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 9074.4 mm2 (386.8-22900 mm2) [sources: Tomlinson_2013; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 162.5 mm (40-450 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 263.99 mg (67.8-552 mg) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 6.75 cm (4.5-9 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 197.42 g/m2 (38.79-746.27 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Richards_2008; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 5.82 mm2/mg (5.82-5.82 mm2/mg) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.65 g/g (0.57-0.84 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.26 g/g (0.17-0.37 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Tomlinson_2013]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Jordan_2020; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (6) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003; Tomlinson_2013]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: Dong_2017; Richards_2008; Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1); nnnnyyyyynnn (2); nnnnyyyyyynn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1); nnnyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1); stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Yang_2023]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.97 mg/g (4.18-36.79 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Richards_2008; Schmidt_2003; Soper_2014; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.16 mg/g (0.28-9.47 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.72 {delta}[ppth] (-29.99--26.7 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Soper_2014; Wright_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 19.71 mg (17.36-21.7 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.83 mm (7-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); winged (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.37-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Rosell_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.11 g/g (0.11-0.11 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8.3 m (2-14 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_201937458I. J. Wright, J. Cooke, L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, M. C. Scalon, W. C. Tozer, and C. E. R. Lehmann. “Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area”. Austral Ecology 44.2 (2018), pp. 339-350. doi: 10.1111/aec.12678.
Tomlinson_201911267K. W. Tomlinson, F. J. Sterck, E. R. M. Barbosa, S. de Bie, H. H. T. Prins, and F. van Langevelde. “Seedling growth of savanna tree species from three continents under grass competition and nutrient limitation in a greenhouse experiment”. Journal of Ecology 107.3 (2019), pp. 1051-1066. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13085.
Schmidt_20031133S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Soper_2014624F. M. Soper, A. E. Richards, I. Siddique, M. P. M. Aidar, G. D. Cook, L. B. Hutley, N. Robinson, and S. Schmidt. “Natural abundance (delta15N) indicates shifts in nitrogen relations of woody taxa along a savanna-woodland continental rainfall gradient”. Oecologia 178.1 (2014), pp. 297-308. doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-3176-3.
Lawes_2012122M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Tomlinson_20131919K. W. Tomlinson, L. Poorter, F. J. Sterck, F. Borghetti, D. Ward, S. de Bie, and F. van Langevelde. “Leaf adaptations of evergreen and deciduous trees of semi-arid and humid savannas on three continents”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2013), pp. 430-440. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12056.
Wright_2008916I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
NTH_20231215D. 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/.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011912R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Brock_1993811J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Wright_200099I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Dong_201788N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Richards_200856A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Chen_201755Chen, 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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
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.
ABRS_198133B. 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_201533P. 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_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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Yang_202323S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Ilic_200011J. 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.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Nano_201111C. 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.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.