Daviesia microphylla

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia microphylla Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia parvifolia S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia incrassata Sm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2017 (15), 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 22 traits from 37 records in 9 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (11-14 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (6.5-7.5 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): 3.75 mm (2.5-5 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (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 (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.48 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	11	15	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.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. 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_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.