AusTraits

Livistona inermis

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Livistona inermis R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Saribus inermis (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Brock_1993 (9), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 64 records in 14 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (4); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Lord_1997; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): apical_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.1 mg/g (15-15.2 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.36 {delta}[ppth] (-28.36--28.36 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 317.77 mg (262.04-373.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.5 m (5-8 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231015Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schmidt_20031115S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Brock_199379J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Nano_201111C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.