Alysicarpus muelleri

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Alysicarpus muelleri Schindl.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alysicarpus muelleri Schindl. var. muelleri (nomenclatural synonym)
Alysicarpus muelleri var. clementii Schindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Alysicarpus muelleri var. typica Schindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Alysicarpus rugosus var. longe-exsertus Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alysicarpus rugosus (Willd.) DC. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (20), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (32). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 77 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (11-15 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): grey (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 49 mm (21-77 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 9.25 mm (2.5-16 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); prostrate (1); spindly (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.64 mg (4.64-4.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.15 mm (2.5-3.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.9 mm (1.8-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.7 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	32	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023	14	20	D. 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/.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. 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/.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2014	2	2	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.