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Chamaecytisus palmensis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chamaecytisus prolifer subsp. palmensis (Christ) Kunkel (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chamaecytisus prolifer var. palmensis (Christ) A.Hansen & Sunding (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cytisus palmensis (Christ) Hutch. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cytisus prolifer var. palmensis Christ (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cytisus proliferus var. palmensis D.Morris (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chamaecytisus prolifer (L.f.) Link (misapplied)
  • Cytisus prolifer L.f. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Standish_2019 (7), Staples_2019 (80), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 146 records in 14 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (40-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 585.25 mm2 (258.63-942.99 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (4-13 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 53.64 mg (27.7-91.2 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 93.66 g/m2 (69.65-115.22 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Yang_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.94 mg (4.94-4.94 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.57-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.78 m (0.7-6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019480T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
RBGV_20231417VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231215N. 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/.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Yang_202333S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
NSWFRD_201422B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.