AusTraits

Hollandaea diabolica

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Hollandaea diabolica A.J.Ford & P.H.Weston

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hollandaea sp. (Devils Thumb P.I.Forster+ PIF10720) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hollandaea sp. (Devils Thumb) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites sp. (Devils Thumb P.I.Forster+ PIF10720) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites sp. (Devils Thumb) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites sp. (Pinnacle Rock Track WWC 867) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites sp. (Pinnacle Rock Track) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites sp. Devils Thumb (P.I.Forster + PIF10720) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Proteaceae sp. 'Devils Thumb' (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Jordan_2020 (5), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 47 records in 8 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 (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 49 mm (48-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 42 mm (40-44 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (65-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 23.75 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
Jordan_202055G. 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.
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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.