Daviesia abnormis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia abnormis F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Latrobea abnormis (F.Muell.) Druce (nomenclatural synonym)
Latrobea pungens Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Barrett_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (2), Crisp_2017 (20), Gosper_2012 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 44 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (11-13 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5.5-6.5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 18 mm (13-23 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Crisp_2017; Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.57 mg (2.57-2.57 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3.5-4 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.55 m (0.3-0.7 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	14	20	M. D. Crisp, L. Cayzer, G. T. Chandler, and L. G. Cook. “A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)”. Phytotaxa 300 (2017), pp. 1-308. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.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.
Barrett_2009	3	3	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.