Daviesia pectinata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia pectinata Lindl.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daviesia latipes F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Daviesia pectinata Lindl. var. pectinata (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2020 (4), Cheal_2017 (6), Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2017 (22), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Pate_1989 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), vanderMoezel_1987 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 118 records in 19 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_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
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): 10.67 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8.33 mm (5-14 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 41 mm (8-70 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.33 mm (2-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (2); lanceolate (2); linear (2); narrowly_triangular (1); triangular (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (3) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Crisp_2017; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2020; Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnyynnnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; White_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: Burrows_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.88 mg (4.35-5.41 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 2.3 mm (2-2.7 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (3); reniform (2) [sources: Crisp_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.75 m (1.5-2.5 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Crisp_2017	15	22	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.
SAH_2023	13	18	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	11	16	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
vanderMoezel_1987	3	3	P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_2006	2	2	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Pate_1989	1	1	J. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.