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Linospadix monostachyos

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Linospadix monostachyos (Mart.) H.Wendl.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Areca monostachya Mart. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Areca monostachyos Dowe & D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bacularia monostachya (Mart.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kentia monostachya (Mart.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Linospadix monostachya Dowe & A.K.Irvine (orthographic variant)
  • Linospadix monostachyus Maiden & Betche (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (2), Jagdish_2020 (17), Kew_2019_5 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2024 (11), Ooi_2007 (101), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 180 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.25 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.25 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 850 mm (300-1300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 102.5 mm (5-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 38.5 cm (20-80 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 51.68 g/m2 (51.68-51.68 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3); shrub (1); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Kew_2019_5]
  • dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Ooi_2007]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 163.55 mg (137.74-209.1 mg) [sources: Jagdish_2020; Ooi_2007]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.82 mg/mm3 (0.82-0.82 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (2-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Ooi_20072101M. K. J. Ooi, P. Myerscough, and T. Auld. “Unpublished data: Longterm seed mass field campaign, University of New South Wales”. 2007.
Jagdish_2020217A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
ABRS_2023915Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2024711N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sams_201777M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
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.
Cooper_201322W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.