Arivela microaustralica

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Family Cleomaceae

Taxonomy: Arivela microaustralica (Iltis) R.L.Barrett

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cleome microaustralica Iltis (nomenclatural synonym)

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

Cleome viscosa L. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (20), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (21), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 61 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 52.5 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 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): 35 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (3-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 5 cm (5-5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; 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 (3); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.54 mg (0.54-0.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.3 mm (1.1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1); orbicular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	15	21	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/.
ABRS_2023	16	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	2	2	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/.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.