Austrosteenisia stipularis
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Austrosteenisia stipularis (C.T.White) Jessup
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kunstleria stipularis (C.T.White) Polhill (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lonchocarpus stipularis C.T.White (basionym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (56), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 90 records in 8 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 68.5 mm (47-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 19.5 mm (18-21 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 1621.45 mm2 (1021.97-2427.98 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaflet_area (numerical): 2994.07 mm2 (2994.07-2994.07 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (4-25 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 35.07 mg (21.13-54.06 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 23.21 g/m2 (20.68-25.02 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.3 g/g (0.26-0.32 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.42 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells_2012 | 25 | 56 | J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 8 | 10 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| 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. |
| Gallagher_2012 | 3 | 3 | R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |