AusTraits

Aeschynomene indica

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Aeschynomene indica L.

Synonyms: 19 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aeschymomene indica F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Aeschynomene cachemiriana Cambess. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene diffusa Klein ex Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene glaberrima Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene indica var. β ? punctata Pers. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene indica var. β Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene indica var. δ viscosa Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene kashmiriana Cambess. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene macropoda DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene montana Span. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene oligantha Welw. ex Baker (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene pumila L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene punctata Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene quadrata Schum. & Thonn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene roxburghii Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene subviscosa DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aeschynomene viscidula Roxb. ex Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hedysarum alpinum Lour. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hedysarum virginicum Lour. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (13), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (2), Kew_2019_6 (14), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (12), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1), White_2020 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 134 records in 24 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): fire_killed (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 31.08 mm (2.5-120 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.9 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5); shrub (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); biennial (1); perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (2); woody_base (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 7.17 mg (0.9-10.01 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231318S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
White_20201717M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Kew_2019_6114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_20231214D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2023812N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_212Western 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.
Kew_2019_211Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wenk_2023_211E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.