AusTraits

Yucca aloifolia

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Yucca aloifolia L.

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

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (doubtfully naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (13), Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2024 (13), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 40 records in 8 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): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (60-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 850 mm (700-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); subulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): basal_large (1); palmoid (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.03 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20241013N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kubiak_200911P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.