Austrodolichos errabundus

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Austrodolichos errabundus (M.B.Scott) Verdc.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Austrodolichos errabundus var. (Mareeba I.B.Staples 070572/9B) - Austrodolichos errabundus var. (Davies Creek J.R.Clarkson+ 7886B) (taxonomic synonym)
Austrodolichos erubescens A.E.Holland (taxonomic synonym)
Austrodolichos sp. Erubescens (A.A.Mitchell 3371) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Dolichos errabundus M.B.Scott (nomenclatural synonym)
Vigna canescens C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (21), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_2022_2 (10), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (32). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 85 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 85.5 mm (78-93 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 32 mm (20-44 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (5-25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (4); herb (4) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
storage_organ (categorical): root_tuber (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22.5 mg (22.5-22.5 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4.5-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	23	32	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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/.
WAH_2022_2	4	10	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. 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.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	3	3	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.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.