AusTraits

Macadamia tetraphylla

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Macadamia tetraphylla L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, NI (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (25), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (12), Jordan_2020 (8), Kooyman_2011 (11), McCarthy_2017 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 107 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 31 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 28.33 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 27.5 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 7569.6 mm2 (7569.6-7569.6 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 216.67 mm (70-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.17 mm (14-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.18 cm (0-0.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 138.57 g/m2 (138.57-138.57 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (2); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 21.33 mm (12-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 17.83 mm (12-24 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.52 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.52 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 14.5 m (3-18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231725Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231521N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Jordan_202088G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
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.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
McCarthy_201733J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.