Mackinlaya macrosciadea
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Family Araliaceae
Taxonomy: Mackinlaya macrosciadea (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Mackinlaya macrosciadia K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)
- Mackinlaya macrosciadum F.M.Bailey (orthographic variant)
- Panax macrosciadeus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Panax macrosciadia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 56 records in 11 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): fire_killed (1); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- flower_diameter (numerical): 0.25 cm (0.25-0.25 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (11-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (60-180 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (35-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 44.95 mg (22.56-61.6 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 12 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 7 | 9 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 4 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |
| Wright_2000 | 4 | 4 | I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 3 | 3 | A. 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. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |