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Barklya syringifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Barklya syringifolia F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Barklya syringifolia F.Muell. var. syringifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Barklya syringifolia var. tortuosa F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bauhinia syringifolia (F.Muell.) Wunderlin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (7), Cooper_2013 (11), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (15), RadfordSmith_2024 (37), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 145 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); legume (4); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3399.76 mm2 (1981.78-4494.18 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.75 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 56.25 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 293 mg (217.95-432.95 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5 cm (2-8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 87.84 g/m2 (66.98-109.81 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.41-0.48 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.71 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 18.67 m (18-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241437J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221517L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Kooyman_20111013R. 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_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wright_20001010I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Chen_201777Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
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.
ABRS_198133B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.