AusTraits

Musgravea heterophylla

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Musgravea heterophylla L.S.Sm.

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (12), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (20), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 71 traits from 159 records in 18 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 81.25 mm (70-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 30.5 mm (25-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 21092.5 mm2 (16260-25925 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 137.5 mm (50-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.75 cm (1.5-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 152.43 g/m2 (139.41-161.35 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Jordan_2020; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lamina_division (categorical): pinnately_lobed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 443.97 {count}/mm2 (443.97-443.97 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyynnnnnnnn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.97 mg/g (8.97-8.97 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.87 {delta}[ppth] (-31.25--30.49 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22 mg (22-22 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 65.33 mm (40-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 17.75 mm (11-26 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 60.83 {count}/mm2 (11.99-132.07 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 71.97 um (38.12-101.44 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.12 mm2/mm2 (0.1-0.17 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
ABRS_20231623Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20202020G. 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.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Apgaua_20171112D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Cheesman_20201212A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
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_198133B. 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/.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.
Wright_200011I. 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.