Helmholtzia acorifolia
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Family Philydraceae
Taxonomy: Helmholtzia acorifolia F.Muell.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 43 records in 10 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): 6.75 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 1000 mm (1000-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (40-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): ensiform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.14 mg (0.14-0.14 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 11 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| ABRS_1981 | 5 | 5 | 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/. |
| 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 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 1 | 1 | 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |