Cajanus scarabaeoides
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars
Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Atylosia pauciflora (Wight & Arn.) Druce (taxonomic synonym)
- Atylosia scarabaeoides (L.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Atylosia scarabaeoides var. queenslandica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Cajan scarabaeoides Thouars (orthographic variant)
- Cantharospermum pauciflorum Wight & Arn. (taxonomic synonym)
- Dolichos scarabaeoides L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Rhynchosia biflora DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Rhynchosia scarabeoides (L.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Stizolobium scarabaeoides (L.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (8), Kew_2019_6 (6), Lord_1997 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 31 records in 8 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: Crowley_2007]
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): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (1); herb (2) [sources: Lord_1997; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
- dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 29.03 mg (11.12-41.63 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 8 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 6 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Lord_1997 | 4 | 4 | J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.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/. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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. |