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Pherosphaera hookeriana

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Pherosphaera hookeriana W.Archer bis

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dacrydium hookerianum (W.Archer bis) Eichler (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Microstrobos niphophilus J.Garden & L.A.S.Johnson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Microstrobos niphophilus K.D.Hill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Microstrobos niphophilus W.M.Curtis (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), Chen_2017 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 33 records in 8 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 23.56 mm2 (23.56-23.56 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1.17 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.17 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.9 mg (0.9-0.9 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
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.
ABRS_198155B. 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/.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
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.