Wollemia nobilis

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Family Araucariaceae

Taxonomy: Wollemia nobilis W.G.Jones, K.D.Hill & J.M.Allen

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (6), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Chen_2017 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lewis_2015 (1901), NHNSW_2024 (25), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 1,963 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 87 mm (50-109 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 42 mm (19-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): strobilus (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 31.3 mm (3-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.38 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 233.34 g/m2 (185.08-299.91 g/m2) [sources: Lewis_2015]
leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 3.3 mm2/mg (2.09-4.38 mm2/mg) [sources: Lewis_2015]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (2); narrowly_triangular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 118.57 {count}/mm2 (46.05-243.42 {count}/mm2) [sources: Lewis_2015]
leaf_stomatal_density_adaxial (numerical): 10.23 {count}/mm2 (0-72.37 {count}/mm2) [sources: Lewis_2015]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 20.43 mg/g (12.34-28.51 mg/g) [sources: Lewis_2015]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.58 {delta}[ppth] (-37.75--24.49 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Lewis_2015]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 9.77 umol{CO2}/m2/s (1.27-17.94 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Lewis_2015]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 33.36 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (4.08-83 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Lewis_2015]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2024]
seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.47 mg/mm3 (0.47-0.47 mg/mm3) [sources: Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Lewis_2015	29	1901	J. D. Lewis, N. G. Phillips, B. A. Logan, R. A. Smith, I. Aranjuelo, S. Clarke, C. A. Offord, A. Frith, M. Barbour, T. Huxman, and D. T. Tissue. “Rising temperature may negate the stimulatory effect of rising CO2 on growth and physiology of Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)”. Functional Plant Biology 42.9 (2015), pp. 836-850. doi: 10.1071/fp14256.
NHNSW_2024	13	25	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kooyman_2011	9	12	R. 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.
ABRS_2023	8	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_1981	4	6	B. 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_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Chen_2017	1	1	Chen, 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_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. 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.