Xanthorrhoea malacophylla

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Asphodelaceae/Xanthorrhoea

At a glance

Occurrence records437

Data sources7

Biological traits30

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Xanthorrhoea malacophylla's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility437 records↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

On this page5 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources30 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS1 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF437 records

DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences

01Narrative

Xanthorrhoea malacophylla is a species of grasstree of the genus Xanthorrhoea. It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. Mature plants form a single or branched trunk that ranges between 2 and 6 metres in height. The grass-like leaves, which are usually around 3 mm wide, are distinguished from other species by their softness and sponginess. The flowers appear between May and September in scapes that are between 1.3 and 1.8 metres long. The species was first formally described in 1986 based on plant material collected in 1964 from Queens Lake State Forest near Kew. It occurs on steep hillsides in coastal ranges between Wyong and Casino.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsTRYGIFT

Size & morphology8

Leaf width3 mm

Leaf width max3.5 mm

Leaf width min2.5 mm

Plant height6 m

Plant height max6 m

Plant height min2 m

Seed length8.32 mm

Seed width2.81 mm

Life cycle & reproduction9

Deciduousnessevergreen

Flowering endSep

Flowering startMay

Flowering timennnnyyyyynnn

Life formshrub or tree

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formphanerophyte

Resprouting capacityresprouts

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment10

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit fleshinessdry

Fruit typecapsule

Growth formtree

⚠ sources differ — GIFT: tree · AusTraits: herb

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf shapelinear obtrullate rhomboidal

Woodinesswoody

⚠ sources differ — TRY: woody · AusTraits: herbaceous · GIFT: woody

Physiology & chemistry1

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

Other traits1

Plant support typefree-standing

03Chemical composition1 compounds

Compounds documented for Xanthorrhoea malacophylla across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Documented compounds1 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Class	Amount	Source
1-[(3S)-7-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-oxatricyclo[7.3.1.05,13]trideca-1(12),5(13),6,8,10-pentaen-6-yl]ethanone		present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding5 sequences

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Xanthorrhoea malacophylla has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

Marker genes1

GenBank sequences5

Countries1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

ITSMW399346.1 ↗953 bpAustralia

ACGT

TCCACTGAACCTTATCATTTAGAGGAAGGAGAAGTCGTAACAAGGTTTCCGTAGGTGAACCTGCGGAAGGATCATTGTAGGGAACCGAAA …

Xanthorrhoea malacophylla isolate TM160 voucher MELUM125775a 18S small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer 1, 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, and internal transcribed spacer 2, complete sequence; and 26S large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★ITS5

fungal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type437 records

Wild obs. + sensor357

Museum / vouchered79

Cultivated / captive1

Origin

Native47

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 004 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 342≤1 km 11≤10 km 1

354 georeferenced · 3 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor357

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy43% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 22≤10 km 29>10 km 2

54 georeferenced · 25 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence79

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤1 km 1

1 georeferenced

Open the mapnot free-living1

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions5 of 7 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Mount Annan, AU	47
Armidale, AU	16
Parkville, AU	7
Canberra, AU	6
John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record	1
Brisbane, AU	1
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	1

7 institutions · 79 of 79 vouchered records shown

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

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