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Daviesia emarginata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia emarginata (Miq.) Crisp

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Daviesia obtusifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Daviesia obtusifolia F.Muell. var. obtusifolia (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fusanus emarginatus Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Fusanus spicatus R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (9), Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2003 (3), Crisp_2017 (15), Gosper_2012 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Pate_1989 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 49 records in 12 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); partial_resprouting (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Crisp_2003; Gosper_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (18-21 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.25 mm (9-9.5 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): 37 mm (24-50 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (3.5-9.5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (1) [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]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Crisp_2003]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 32.05 mg (32.05-32.05 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.6 m (1-2 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Crisp_20171115M. 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.
Barrett_200959S. 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.
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/.
Crisp_200333M. 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.
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.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Pate_198911J. S. Pate, J. Kuo, K. W. Dixon, and M. D. Crisp. “Anomalous secondary thickening in roots of Daviesia (Fabaceae) and its taxonomic significance”. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 99.2 (1989), pp. 175-193. ISSN: 0024-4074. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb00397.x.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.