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Stenocarpus sinuatus

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Stenocarpus sinuatus Endl.

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agnostus sinuata Foreman (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agnostus sinuata Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agnostus sinuata Loudon (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agnostus sinuatus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agnostus sinuatus Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agnostus sinuatus J.Wrigley & Fagg (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cybele sinuata (Endl.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenocarpus cunninghami Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenocarpus cunninghamii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenocarpus sinuosus F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenocarpus sinuosus var. integrifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenocarpus sinuosus var. intergrifolius A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Benwell_2024 (5), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (19), Kanowski_2000 (46), Kew_2019_1 (5), Kooyman_2011 (15), McCarthy_2017 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), RadfordSmith_2024 (40), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 90 traits from 229 records in 23 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 8436.52 mm2 (4108.65-15446.07 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kanowski_2000; McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 293.75 mm (50-480 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 85 mm (20-250 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 1101.59 mg (709.52-1740.5 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.12 cm (1-2.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 153.61 g/m2 (113.38-227.33 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Kanowski_2000; McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.47 g/g (0.44-0.51 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); lobed_deep (1); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Jordan_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 196.01 {count}/mm2 (196.01-196.01 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (2); nnyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyyynnnyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 54.48 mg (44.76-75.44 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 25.88 mm (9-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.57-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 36.25 m (30-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_20002346J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
RadfordSmith_20241540J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Jordan_20201919G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
ABRS_20231518Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231317N. 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/.
Kooyman_20111115R. 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.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wright_20001010I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Benwell_202455A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Kew_2019_115Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
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.
McCarthy_201722J. 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.
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.