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Ceratopetalum apetalum · Cunoniaceae · all Ceratopetalum records · also called Ceratopetalum apetalum · Wikipedia

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Listed without a rating (10)
Corroboration (10 rows from 1 source)

  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    10 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Clarke2014: Clarke, P. J., Prior, L. D., French, B. J., Vincent, B., Knox, K. J., & Bowman, D. M. (2014). Using a rainforest-flame forest mosaic to test the hypothesis that leaf and litter fuel flammability is under natural selection. Oecologia, 176, 1123-33.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; device burning bench; site Clarke2014-1; sampling october.

      • “time to flaming (s): 3”

        FLAMITS record 1205; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.

      • “flaming duration (s): 9.9”

        FLAMITS record 1229; Sustainability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.

      • “time to flaming (s): 24.6”

        FLAMITS record 1253; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.

      • “flaming duration (s): 10.9”

        FLAMITS record 1277; Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.

    • Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Krix2019-1; sampling june to august.

      • Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement.

        • “time to flaming (s): 9.1”

          FLAMITS record 5961.

        • “time to smoke (s): 6.2”

          FLAMITS record 6048.

        • “time to flaming (s): 9.8”

          FLAMITS record 6101.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement.

        • “flaming duration (s): 10.8”

          FLAMITS record 6014.

        • “smoke duration (s): 4.9”

          FLAMITS record 6135.

        • “burning duration (s): 34.9”

          FLAMITS record 6195.

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Same genus in the directory · the Ceratopetalum group page

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