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Livistona decora

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Livistona decora (W.Bull) Dowe

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Corypha decora W.Bull (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Livistona decipiens Becc. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Livistona decipiens Becc. var. decipiens (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Livistona decipiens var. polyantha Becc. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Livistona sp. aff. australis (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Livistona australis (R.Br.) Mart. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Livistona inermis R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 45 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 15 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 556.43 mg (556.43-556.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231319Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.