Bossiaea reptans
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Bossiaea reptans T.D.Macfarl. & J.H.Ross
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bossiaea sp. Frankland (E.M.Sandiford EMS 896) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: SPRAT_2025_2 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 25 records in 5 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): resprouts (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (11-16 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6.35 mm (2.7-10 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (2.5-8 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.2-0.2 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 10 | 14 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |