Livistona mariae subsp. rigida

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Livistona mariae subsp. rigida (Becc.) Rodd

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Livistona rigida Becc. (nomenclatural synonym)
Livistona sp. (taxonomic synonym)
Livistona sp. 'Old Moorstone' (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Brock_1993 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 49 records in 9 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 1250 mm (1000-1500 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 1250 mm (1000-1500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
petiole_length (numerical): 200 cm (150-250 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 461.75 mg (461.75-461.75 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 15 m (10-20 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993	8	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.