Macrozamia fraseri

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Family Zamiaceae

Taxonomy: Macrozamia fraseri Miq.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Encephalartos fraseri (Miq.) Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Encephalartos oldfieldii Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Encephalartos preissii (Lehm.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia oldfieldii (Miq.) A.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia preissii Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia preissii Lehm. subsp. preissii (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia sp. Eneabba (D.L.Jones 12402) Australian National Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Macrozamia sp. Enneabba (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Tsakalos_2020 (19), Tsakalos_2022 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 47 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 2035 mm (1370-2700 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 36.5 cm (18-55 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2023_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2023_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): basal_large (1); palmoid (1); tree (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 19393.18 mg (19393.18-19393.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	18	19	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	9	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Tsakalos_2022	2	2	J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	1	1	Chen, 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.