AusTraits

Crotalaria novae-hollandiae

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Crotalaria novae-hollandiae DC.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (22), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (20), Schmidt_2003 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 71 traits from 135 records in 19 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): yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 30 mm (25-35 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 57.58 mm (20-110 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.83 mm (10-55 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); obovate (2); ovate (4); triangular (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (4) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); barochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); ants (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 29 mg/g (29-29 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.55 {delta}[ppth] (-30.55--30.55 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.56 mg (8.56-8.56 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.38 mm (3.5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (2) [sources: NTH_2014; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.23 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222530L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231422D. 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/.
SAH_20231620S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Schmidt_20031013S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_200644A. 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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Lord_199733J. 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.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.