Cajanus pubescens
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Cajanus pubescens (Ewart & Morrison) Maesen
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Atylosia pubescens (Ewart & Morrison) S.T.Reynolds & Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
- Atylosia pubescens (Ewart & Morrison) S.T.Reynolds & Pedley var. pubescens (nomenclatural synonym)
- Atylosia pubescens var. mollis S.T.Reynolds & Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
- Tephrosia pubescens Ewart & Morrison (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 17 records in 6 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
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): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.15 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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. |
| 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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. |