Archidendron grandiflorum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Archidendron grandiflorum (Benth.) I.C.Nielsen

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)

Abarema grandiflora (Benth.) Kosterm. (nomenclatural synonym)
Albizia tozeri (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Albizzia tozeri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Feuilleea tozeri (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Mimosa grandiflora Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Pithecellobium grandiflorum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pithecellobium tozeri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pithecolobium grandiflorum Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Pithecolobium tozeri Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Pithecolobium tozerii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (4), Chen_2017 (7), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (20), RadfordSmith_2024 (37), Sams_2017 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 143 records in 20 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 175 mm (100-200 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 24.38 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 48814.41 mm2 (32524.67-72350.58 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaflet_area (numerical): 1525.45 mm2 (1016.4-2260.96 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 54.17 mm (15-115 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 25.83 mm (15-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 182.63 mg (106.56-323.94 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (2-6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 95.26 g/m2 (77.77-143.55 g/m2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.46 g/g (0.42-0.48 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersers (categorical): animals (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Sams_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 12.17 mm (6-14 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.51-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 17.75 m (15-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	15	37	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
NHNSW_2023	15	20	N. 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/.
ABRS_2023	14	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	10	11	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Chen_2017	7	7	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Butler_2004	4	4	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sams_2017	4	4	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Ilic_2000	1	3	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.