AusTraits

Orites acicularis

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Orites acicularis (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Oritina acicularis R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (6), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 89 records in 16 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 42.15 mm2 (23.56-115.5 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Mokany_2015; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 26.25 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 542.29 g/m2 (396.83-606 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 59.01 {count}/mm2 (59.01-59.01 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • 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 (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2007]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.39 mg (5.38-5.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.72 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231316Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20201313G. 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.
Westoby_2004413M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Jordan_200766G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Mokany_201522K. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.