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Persoonia media

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Persoonia media R.Br.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Linkia media (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Persoonia attenuata subsp. A (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Persoonia attenuata R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Butler_2004 (5), Campbell_2006 (6), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2009 (9), Clarke_2015 (2), Jordan_2020 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 101 records in 19 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 (4); resprouts (1) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; 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_type (categorical): drupe (3); pyrene (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 101.67 mm (30-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.33 mm (1-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); linear_elliptical (1); ovate (2); widely_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (3) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Campbell_2006]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnny (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (4) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Campbell_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 115.59 mg (115.59-115.59 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.78 mg/mm3 (0.78-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.72 m (0.3-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
NHNSW_2023911N. 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/.
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.
Clarke_200959P. 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.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
Jordan_202088G. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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/.
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_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_201522P. 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_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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.