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Podocarpus elatus

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Podocarpus elatus R.Br. ex Endl.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Margbensonia elata (R.Br. ex Endl.) A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nageia elata (R.Br. ex Endl.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Podocarpus elata Endl. (orthographic variant)
  • Podocarpus elata Mirb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podocarpus ensifolia Carrière (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podocarpus ensifolius R.Br. ex Carrière (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (2), Cooper_2013 (15), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kooyman_2011 (14), Lawes_2014 (1), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), Niinemets_2009 (51), Pickup_2021 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2009 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 171 records in 18 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 28.33 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 976.83 mm2 (763.74-1187 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (30-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 11.75 mm (5-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 155.33 g/m2 (105.93-225.73 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1); recurved (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; 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]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.45 mg/g (9-9.9 mg/g) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.85 mg/g (1.76-1.93 mg/g) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.94 {delta}[ppth] (-27--26.88 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Niinemets_2009]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1097.9 mg (364.69-1610 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 13.33 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10.83 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.46-0.48 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 28.33 m (15-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Niinemets_20092751Ü. Niinemets, I. J. Wright, and J. R. Evans. “Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation”. Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (2009), pp. 2433-2449. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp045.
Wright_20091326I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Leaf pigment and reflectance data for sclerophylls, Macquarie University”. 2009.
ABRS_20231219Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
McCarthy_2017210J. 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.
NHNSW_202379N. 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/.
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.
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/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
Pickup_202133M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
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.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Lawes_201411M. J. Lawes, S. J. Richardson, P. J. Clarke, J. J. Midgley, M. S. McGlone, and P. J. Bellingham. “Bark thickness does not explain the different susceptibility of Australian and New Zealand temperate rain forests to anthropogenic fire”. Journal of Biogeography 41.8 (2014), pp. 1467-1477. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12292.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.