Daviesia acicularis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia acicularis Sm.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia pungens Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, ACT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2009 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2003 (3), Crisp_2017 (24), Hughes_1992 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 66 traits from 115 records in 15 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): fire_killed (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crisp_2003; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (3.5-7 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 25.25 mm (9-42 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.38 mm (0.5-4 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); subulate (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): truncate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: Crisp_2017; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: Clarke_2009; Crisp_2017; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); insect (1) [sources: Crisp_2003; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynynn (1); nnnnnnnyyynn (2); nnnnnnnyyyyn (2) [sources: Crisp_2017; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.9 mm (3.5-4.3 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_width (numerical): 2.4 mm (2.1-2.7 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	17	24	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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	16	19	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	12	16	N. 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/.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. 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.
Clarke_2009	3	5	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	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.
Crisp_2003	3	3	M. D. Crisp and L. G. Cook. “Phylogeny and Evolution of Anomalous Roots in Daviesia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)”. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164.4 (2003), pp. 603-612. ISSN: 1537-5315. doi: 10.1086/375318.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.