AusTraits

Podocarpus grayae

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Family Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Podocarpus grayae de Laub.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Podocarpus grayi K.D.Hill (orthographic variant)
  • Podocarpus grayii de Laub. (orthographic variant)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Podocarpus neriifolius D.Don (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Ilic_2000 (2), Kooyman_2011 (11), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 84 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): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 21.67 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.83 mm (3-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (60-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.4-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11.33 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.43 mg/mm3 (0.37-0.47 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 24 m (12-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231220Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231217D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Ilic_200012J. 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.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.