Petermannia cirrosa

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Family Petermanniaceae

Taxonomy: Petermannia cirrosa F.Muell.

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

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (16), Benwell_2024 (4), Chen_2017 (4), Kooyman_2011 (12), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (85), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 188 records in 15 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 (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
flower_diameter (numerical): 4.6 cm (1.2-8 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [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]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 908.85 mm2 (288-2235 mm2) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_length (numerical): 71.1 mm (33-150 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 24.2 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 89.99 mg (44.51-138.93 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.3-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 99.02 g/m2 (99.02-99.02 g/m2) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.3 g/g (0.28-0.32 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.3 g/g (2.12-2.56 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 24.5 deg (10-45 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
pollination_system (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.32 mg/g (11.32-11.32 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.74 mg/g (0.74-0.74 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); polyhedral (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Smith_1996	17	85	B. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	21	26	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	14	22	N. 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/.
ABRS_2023	12	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.