AusTraits

Helicia australasica

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Helicia australasica F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Helicia dentellata Sleumer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Helicia glabrescens C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Brock_1993 (12), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (18), Kooyman_2011 (10), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 72 traits from 160 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11.17 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.12 mm (5-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6.25 mm (5-7.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2816 mm2 (2816-2816 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 123.25 mm (50-230 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 47.62 mm (25-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.88 cm (0.2-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 113.96 g/m2 (113.96-113.96 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0 g/g (0-0 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 231.43 {count}/mm2 (231.43-231.43 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (3); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1); ynnnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12 mg/g (9-15 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.82 {delta}[ppth] (-32.56--30.75 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 12.25 m (3-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schmidt_20031120S. 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.
ABRS_20231219Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20201818G. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221515L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2023913D. 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/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.