AusTraits

Myristica lancifolia subsp. australiana

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Family Myristicaceae

Taxonomy: Myristica lancifolia subsp. australiana Jessup & W.J.de Wilde

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), ATRP_2020 (1), Kooyman_2011 (8), NTH_2014 (14), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 53 records in 9 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_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (13-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 137.5 mm (50-240 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.15 cm (0.6-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1); nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 17.5 m (15-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20141114Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Kooyman_201168R. 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.