AusTraits

Daviesia horrida

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia horrida Preiss ex Meisn.

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

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Barrett_2009 (3), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2017 (19), Kew_2019_1 (1), Pate_1989 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 67 records in 16 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 79.5 mm (18-150 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10.75 mm (1.5-20 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Crisp_2017; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): proteoid_root (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.41 mg (17.93-23.7 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.65 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Crisp_20171519M. 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.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Burrows_2008_244N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Barrett_200933S. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.