AusTraits

Caesalpinia bonduc

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) Roxb.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Guilandina bonduc L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caesalpinia bonducella (L.) Fleming (misapplied)
  • Guilandina bonducella L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): CoI, ChI, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (10), Chen_2017 (8), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (9), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_5 (4), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2016 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (26), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 161 records in 25 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): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 63.8 mm (30-90 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 35.9 mm (25-48 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 7371 mm2 (7371-7371 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 72.37 mm (10-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 20.4 mm (5-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); oblong (3); ovate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (5) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (3); shrub (4); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): autochory (1); barochory (1); hydrochory (3) [sources: Kew_2019_5; NHNSW_2016]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnyyyynnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnnn (2); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2148.49 mg (1560.66-3346.67 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 20.8 mm (15-29 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 21.5 mm (15-29 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (3); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.75 m (3-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231626D. 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/.
ABRS_20231523Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231322N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kew_2019_119Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Chen_201788Chen, 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.
Kooyman_201188R. 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.
Kew_2019_514Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Kew_2019_333Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. 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_200633A. 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_198122B. 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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_201622National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.