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Arivela tetrandra

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Family Cleomaceae

Taxonomy: Arivela tetrandra (Banks ex DC.) R.L.Barrett

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cleome tetrandra Banks ex DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cleome tetrandra Banks ex DC. var. tetrandra (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cleome tetrandra var. pentata Hewson (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (10), ABRS_2023 (31), Crowley_2007 (1), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (12), WAH_2023_2 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 98 records in 14 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): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4); silique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 29 mm (1-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (0.5-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.2 cm (1.2-1.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1); linear_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (8); perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.9 mg (0.9-0.9 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.65 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.8 mm (1.6-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1); orbicular (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.15-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231331Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231318D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2412Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022410Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_216Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.