Clitoria australis
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Clitoria australis Benth.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ternatea australis (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (24), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 70 records in 10 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 45.5 mm (41-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 58.5 mm (40-87 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 32.25 mm (19-52 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); shrub (3) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 58.7 mg (58.7-58.7 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
- seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 14 | 24 | D. 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/. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 22 | 24 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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/. |
| Lord_1997 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| NTH_2014 | 3 | 3 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| 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. |