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Aphyllodium biarticulatum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

Synonyms: 19 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aphyllodium australiense (Schindl.) H.Ohashi (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell. var. biarticulatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Desmodium biarticulatum var. australiense (Schindl.) Meeuwen (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium novae-hollandiae Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium novae-hollandiae Domin f. novae-hollandiae (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium novae-hollandiae Domin var. novae-hollandiae (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium novae-hollandiae f. latifolium Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium novae-hollandiae var. typicum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC. f. biarticulatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC. subsp. biarticulatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum f. genuinum Schindl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum subsp. australiense (Schindl.) H.Ohashi (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Dicerma biarticulatum var. australiense Schindl. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Dicerma sp. (Gilbert River E.W.Bick 65) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Echinolobium biarticulatum (L.) Desv. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hedysarum biarticulatum L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Meibomia biarticulatum (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (17), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 37 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (5-11 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]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (4) [sources: NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.7 mm (2.7-2.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.7 mm (1.3-2.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231317D. 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_202244D. 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_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/.
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.