Xanthorrhoea nana
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Family Xanthorrhoeaceae
Taxonomy: Xanthorrhoea nana D.A.Herb.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (6), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Gosper_2012 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 45 records in 13 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_shape (categorical): obtrullate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): basal_large (1); herb (1); palmoid (2); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1); woody_like_stem (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (2); nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 7 | 7 | 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 | 5 | 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/. |
| Gosper_2012 | 6 | 6 | C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x. |
| Chen_2017 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Clarke_2015 | 2 | 2 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |