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Persoonia linearis

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Persoonia linearis Andrews

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Linkia linearis (Andrews) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pentadactylon angustifolium C.F.Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia angustifolia Knight (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia breviuscula Gand. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia filifolia F.Dietr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Persoonia linearis Andrews var. linearis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Persoonia linearis var. latior Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia pentadactylon Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia phyllostachys Gand. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Persoonia walteri Gand. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Campbell_2006 (6), Cheal_2017 (2), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2009 (2), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Duncan_1998 (14), Fonseca_2000 (9), Hughes_1992 (4), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (9), Kotowska_2020 (203), Kubiak_2009 (7), Lee_2019 (20), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (7), Leishman_2007 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mesaglio_2022 (2), Morgan_2005 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (9), NSWFRD_2014 (9), Onoda_2010 (35), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (15), Rosell_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsujii_2023 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (32), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (18), Wright_2002 (69), Zanne_2007 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 152 traits from 582 records in 42 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): resprouts (6) [sources: Campbell_2006; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4); pyrene (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); purple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 103.69 mm2 (35.1-182 mm2) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; Morgan_2005; Westoby_2014; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 64.5 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.87 mm (1-10 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 15.83 mg (5-31 mg) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 143.21 g/m2 (64.55-250 g/m2) [sources: Duncan_1998; Fonseca_2000; Kotowska_2020; Leishman_1995; Leishman_2007; Morgan_2005; Tsujii_2023; Westoby_2014; Wright_2002; Zanne_2007]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.27 g/g (0.27-0.27 g/g) [sources: Duncan_1998]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3); linear_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (3); spathulate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (6) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convex (1); flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 58.56 {count}/mm2 (58.56-58.56 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Duncan_1998; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (13); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3); zoochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1); nnnnnynnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnny (3); yyyyyyynnnny (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Hughes_1992; Mesaglio_2022; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; NSWFRD_2014]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.76 mg/g (7.7-18.2 mg/g) [sources: Kotowska_2020; Leishman_2007; Tsujii_2023; Westoby_2014; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.82 mg/g (0.37-1.94 mg/g) [sources: Kotowska_2020; Leishman_2007; Tsujii_2023; Westoby_2014; Wright_2002]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.26 {delta}[ppth] (-30.48--24.03 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014; Wright_2002]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 155.93 mg (109.16-179.32 mg) [sources: Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995; RBGK_2014]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Kotowska_2020; Lee_2019; Morgan_2005; Onoda_2010; Rosell_2014; Westoby_2014; Zanne_2007]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Kotowska_2020; Westoby_2014; Zanne_2007]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 117.84 {count}/mm2 (30.27-213.36 {count}/mm2) [sources: Kotowska_2020]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.09 mm2/mm2 (0.09-0.14 mm2/mm2) [sources: Kotowska_2020]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kotowska_202022203M. M. Kotowska, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Parenchyma abundance in wood of evergreen trees varies independently of nutrients”. Frontiers in Plant Science 11 (2020), p. art86. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00086.
Wright_20023469I. J. Wright and M. Westoby. “Leaves at low versus high rainfall: Coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology”. New Phytologist 155 (2002), pp. 403-416. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00479.x.
Onoda_2010735Y. Onoda, A. E. Richards, and M. Westoby. “The relationship between stem biomechanics and wood density is modified by rainfall in 32 Australian woody plant species”. New Phytologist 185.2 (2009), pp. 493-501. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03088.x.
Westoby_20143232S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
Lee_2019520M. R. Lee, J. R. Powell, B. Oberle, W. K. Cornwell, M. Lyons, J. L. Rigg, and A. E. Zanne. “Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats”. Ecology 100.9 (2019), p. e02790. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2790.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Zanne_2007618A. Zanne. “Unpublished data: Hydraulic traits for NSW plant species from four field sites, Macquarie University”. 2007.
RBGV_20231315VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Duncan_19981414D. H. Duncan. “Unpublished data: Structural basis of variation in leaf mass per area in three plant clades, Macquarie University”. 1998.
ABRS_2023811Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Fonseca_200059C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Jordan_202099G. 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.
NHNSW_202379N. 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/.
NSWFRD_201499B. 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.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Tsujii_202388Y. Tsujii, B. J. Atwell, H. Lambers, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf phosphorus fractions vary with leaf economic traits among 35 Australian woody species”. New Phytologist 241.5 (2024), pp. 1985-1997. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.19513.
Kubiak_200947P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Leishman_199577M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
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.
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.
Morgan_200555H. Morgan. “Root system architecture, water use and rainfall responses of perennial species”. PhD. Macquarie University, 2005.
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.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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/.
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.
Leishman_200733M. R. Leishman, T. Haslehurst, A. Ares, and Z. Baruch. “Leaf trait relationships of native and invasive plants: community- and global-scale comparisons”. New Phytologist 176.3 (2007), pp. 635-643. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02189.x.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cheal_201722D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Clarke_200922P. 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.
Mesaglio_202212T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.