AusTraits

Daviesia aphylla

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia aphylla F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Daviesia acanthoclona F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Daviesia benthamii subsp. acanthoclona (F.Muell.) Crisp (taxonomic synonym)
  • Daviesia brevifolia var. ephedroides Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Daviesia nudula J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Daviesia sp. Kanandah (R.Davis 10604) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Daviesia benthamii Meisn. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Daviesia benthamii Meisn. subsp. benthamii (pro parte misapplied)
  • Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp (pro parte misapplied)
  • Daviesia genistifolia A.Cunn. ex Benth. (misapplied)
  • Daviesia genistifolia A.Cunn. ex Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Daviesia genistifolia var. colletioides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crisp_2017 (20), Draper_2023 (3), Gosper_2012 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), vanderMoezel_1987 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 68 records in 11 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012; White_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7.55 mm (0.1-15 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.38 mm (1-1.75 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2); phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Crisp_2017; Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; White_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Crisp_20171520M. 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.
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Gosper_201266C. 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_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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
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.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
vanderMoezel_198733P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.