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Orites excelsus

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Orites excelsus R.Br.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Orites excelsa R.Br. (orthographic variant)
  • Orites excelsa R.Br. var. excelsa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Orites excelsa var. fissifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites excelsus R.Br. var. excelsus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Orites excelsus var. fissifolius F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Orites fragrans F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (22), Butler_2004 (5), Campbell_2006 (6), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (12), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lawes_2014 (1), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (20), NSWFRD_2014 (4), RadfordSmith_2024 (32), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (276), Stewart_1995 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 92 traits from 497 records in 30 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
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2643.99 mm2 (76.9-6901 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 127.28 mm (22-267 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24.62 mm (5-45 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 243.49 mg (15.18-453.52 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Smith_1996]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.38 cm (0.5-2.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 89.45 g/m2 (78.61-119.91 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.4-0.51 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Smith_1996]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.15 g/g (0.96-1.32 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (4); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 35.63 deg (0-70 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (10) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Stewart_1995; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: Butler_2004; Campbell_2006; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (2); nnnnyyyyyynn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1); soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8 mg/g (5.62-9.78 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.63 mg/g (0.6-0.65 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.02 {delta}[ppth] (-31.72--29.85 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22.86 mg (22.86-22.86 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 15.12 mm (4-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Smith_199617276B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
RadfordSmith_20241432J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222128L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231622Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231520N. 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/.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Jordan_20201212G. 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.
Stewart_1995611G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Campbell_200666M. L. Campbell and P. J. Clarke. “Response of montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire- evidence from high and low intensity fires”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127 (2006), pp. 63-73. doi: unknown.
Sams_201766M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
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.
NSWFRD_201444B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_200923P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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/.
Ilic_200012J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
Lawes_201411M. J. Lawes, S. J. Richardson, P. J. Clarke, J. J. Midgley, M. S. McGlone, and P. J. Bellingham. “Bark thickness does not explain the different susceptibility of Australian and New Zealand temperate rain forests to anthropogenic fire”. Journal of Biogeography 41.8 (2014), pp. 1467-1477. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12292.
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.