Petrophile shirleyae

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Petrophile shirleyae F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Petrophila shirleyae F.M.Bailey (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), McCarthy_2017 (18), Schmidt_1997 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 80 records in 14 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 (2) [sources: Schmidt_1997; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3); strobilus (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 675.73 mm2 (425.8-1115.23 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 93.75 mm (30-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (3-5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 279.21 g/m2 (232.17-314.54 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020]
leaf_lamina_division (categorical): bipinnate (1); tripinnate (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 107.66 {count}/mm2 (107.66-107.66 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Schmidt_1997; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Schmidt_1997]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
root_structure (categorical): proteoid_root (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (2) [sources: Schmidt_1997; Yang_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.2 mg/g (7.2-7.2 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.3 {delta}[ppth] (-31.91--29.25 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_1997]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.32 mg (3.32-3.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.49 mg/mm3 (0.46-0.54 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.3-1.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
McCarthy_2017	3	18	J. 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.
ABRS_2023	8	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schmidt_1997	11	13	S. Schmidt and G. Stewart. “Waterlogging and fire impacts on nitrogen availability and utilization in a subtropical wet heathland (wallum)”. Plant, Cell and Environment 20.10 (1997), pp. 1231-1241. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1997.d01-20.x.
Jordan_2020	8	8	G. 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.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_2015	4	4	G. 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_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.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.