Daviesia major

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia major (Benth.) Crisp

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia hakeoides var. major Benth. (basionym)
Daviesia viscida Crisp (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2017 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 44 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 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): 105.02 mm (0.1-210 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.08 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); terete (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 (4) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (2.25-2.25 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.25-1 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	16	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.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. 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.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
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.