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Telopea truncata

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Telopea truncata (Labill.) R.Br.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Embothrium truncatum Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hylogyne australis Salisb. ex Knight (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hylogyne truncata (Labill.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Telopea tasmaniana Ross (taxonomic synonym)
  • Telopea truncata (Labill.) R.Br. f. truncata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Telopea truncata f. lutea A.M.Gray (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Blackman_2010 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (7), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (16), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 116 records in 20 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 (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (35-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1664.83 mm2 (466.41-5654.87 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Mokany_2015; Tng_2013; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (30-180 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.17 mm (5-40 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 237.61 g/m2 (225.8-267.38 g/m2) [sources: Blackman_2010; Jordan_2007; Jordan_2020; Tng_2013; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 128.96 {count}/mm2 (128.96-128.96 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Jordan_2007; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.84 {delta}[ppth] (-31.84--31.84 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 24.24 mg (18.78-35.37 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 18 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: Blackman_2010; Tng_2013; Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7 m (3-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231417Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_20201616G. 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.
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.
Westoby_2004413M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Jordan_200777G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
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.
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.
Tng_201355D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Blackman_201044C. J. Blackman, T. J. Brodribb, and G. J. Jordan. “Leaf hydraulic vulnerability is related to conduit dimensions and drought resistance across a diverse range of woody angiosperms”. New Phytologist 188.4 (2010), pp. 1113-1123. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03439.x.
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.
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/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_201522K. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kirkpatrick_202011J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.