AusTraits

Microcachrys tetragona

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Microcachrys tetragona (Hook.) Hook.f.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Athrotaxis tetragona Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dacrydium tetragonum (Hook.) Parl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 33 records in 10 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: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 0.79 mm2 (0.79-0.79 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1); imbricate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.08 mg (1.33-2.66 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_202366Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_198144B. 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/.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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.