Cyclocarpa stellaris

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Cyclocarpa stellaris Afzel. ex Urb.

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

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (22), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 55 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

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.35 mm (2-2.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); obovate (1); triangular (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.55 mg (0.55-0.55 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.7-1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	16	22	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	13	13	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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/.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.