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Arivela cleomoides

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Family Cleomaceae

Taxonomy: Arivela cleomoides (F.Muell.) R.L.Barrett

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cleome cleomoides (F.Muell.) Iltis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gynandropsis cleomoides (F.Muell.) Druce (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gynandropsis muelleri Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Justago cleomoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Roeperia clemoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Roeperia cleomoides F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 78 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 62.5 mm (40-85 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (4-4.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.25 mm (4-4.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); silique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 54.17 mm (15-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5.25 cm (1-7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.81 mg (0.81-0.81 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.91 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231622D. 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/.
ABRS_20231517Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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_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).
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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.