AusTraits

Caesalpinia crista

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Caesalpinia crista L.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caesalpinia nuga (L.) W.T.Aiton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Caesalpinia paniculata (Lam.) Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Guilandina nuga L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Guilandina paniculata Lam. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): ChI, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (8), Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 65 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (40-75 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 36.25 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnyy (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15 m (15-15 m) [sources: ABRS_1981]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231420Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
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.
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/.
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/.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_202211Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.