AusTraits

Rhaphidophora australasica

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Family Araceae

Taxonomy: Rhaphidophora australasica F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Raphidophora australasica Domin (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (7), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (10), Cooper_2013 (8), Grubb_1996 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2009 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 64 records in 12 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 80 mm (80-80 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 45000 mm2 (45000-45000 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 475 mm (300-800 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 176.25 mm (75-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); falcate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (3); climber_herbaceous (4); climber_woody (1); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): hemiepiphyte (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.18-0.18 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_20091515E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Wells_20121111J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_201368W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_202377Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_199622P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.