Lepidozamia hopei

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Family Zamiaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidozamia hopei (W.Hill) Regel

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Catakidozamia hopei W.Hill (nomenclatural synonym)
Macrozamia denisonii var. hopei (W.Hill) J.Schust. (nomenclatural synonym)
Macrozamia hopei C.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia hopei W.Hill ex F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2023 (15), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Metcalfe_2009 (19), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 53 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 600 mm (400-800 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 250 mm (200-300 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 7200 mm2 (7200-7200 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 1400 mm (200-3000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 45 cm (30-60 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (2); tree (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21000 mg (18000-24000 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 53 mm (40-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
seed_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.38 mg/mm3 (0.38-0.38 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 19 m (18-20 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
ABRS_2023	8	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	8	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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/.
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.
Chen_2017	1	1	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.