AusTraits

Livistona nitida

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Livistona nitida Rodd

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Livistona sp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Livistona sp. 'Carnarvon and Taroom' (R.W.Johnson 2764) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Livistona sp. (Taroom R.W.Johnson 2764) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Livistona sp. Carnarvon (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (22), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 33 records in 6 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): 16.5 mm (13-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 16.5 mm (13-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 16.5 mm (13-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 933.68 mg (933.68-933.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231322Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
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.