AusTraits

Macrozamia johnsonii

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Family Zamiaceae

Taxonomy: Macrozamia johnsonii D.L.Jones & K.D.Hill

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Macrozamia moorei F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (1), NHNSW_2022 (1), NHNSW_2023 (17), Pickup_2021 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 45 records in 8 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 650 mm (400-900 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 155 mm (120-190 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 46.25 mm (40-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023917N. 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/.
ABRS_20231015Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SPRAT_2025_245F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Pickup_202133M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Chen_201711Chen, 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.
NHNSW_202211N. 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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.