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Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Hook.f.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dacrydium fitzgeraldi F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dacrydium fitzgeraldii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Microstrobos fitzgeraldii (F.Muell.) J.Garden & L.A.S.Johnson (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pherosphaera fitzgeraldi Hook.f. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (6), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (12), Chen_2017 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (5), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 42 records in 9 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1); wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231112Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_198156B. 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/.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202345N. 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_201455B. 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.
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/.
Chen_201722Chen, 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.