Daviesia megacalyx

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia megacalyx Crisp

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia sp. 'meg' (taxonomic synonym)
Daviesia sp. (Ravensthorpe) M.D.Crisp 6065 (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (5), Cochrane_2018 (15), Crisp_2003 (3), Crisp_2017 (19), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_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 33 traits from 60 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) [sources: Barrett_2009; Cochrane_2018; Crisp_2003]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 21.5 mm (20-23 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 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): 60 mm (40-80 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Crisp_2017; 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]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Cochrane_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.49 mg (20-20.97 mg) [sources: Cochrane_2018; Kew_2019_1]
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): 1.32 m (0.7-1.6 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	15	19	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.
Cochrane_2018	5	15	A. Cochrane. “Temperature thresholds for germination in 20 short-range endemic plant species from a Greenstone Belt in southern Western Australia”. Plant Biology 22.S1 (2019). Ed. by J. Scheepens, pp. 103-112. doi: 10.1111/plb.12951.
Barrett_2009	5	5	S. 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.
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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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/.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.