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Archidendron muellerianum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Archidendron muellerianum (Maiden & R.T.Baker) I.C.Nielsen

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Abarema muellerana Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Abarema muelleriana (Maiden & R.T.Baker) Kosterm. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Albizia muellerana Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Albizia muelleriana Maiden & R.T.Baker (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Albizzia muelleriana Maiden & R.T.Baker (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Archidendron muelleranum I.C.Nielsen (orthographic variant)
  • Pithecellobium muelleranum Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pithecellobium muellerianum (Maiden & R.T.Baker) Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pithecolobium muelleriana Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (25), Benwell_2024 (5), Butler_2004 (4), Chen_2017 (8), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (12), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), RadfordSmith_2024 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 112 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 78.75 mm (10-130 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); legume (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); orange (1); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 77.17 mm (28-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38.33 mm (15-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (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): shrub (2); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 9.62 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9.5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ellipsoid_flattened (1); globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.54 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231725Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231418N. 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/.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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_201788Chen, 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.
RadfordSmith_202478J. 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.
Benwell_202455A. 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_200444D. 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.
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.
Wright_200044I. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.