Daviesia rhombifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Daviesia rhombifolia 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: Collette_2021 (1), Crisp_2003 (3), Crisp_2017 (14), Harvey_2017 (6), Read_2005 (36), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), 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 38 traits from 90 records in 12 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 (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crisp_2003; Harvey_2017; Standish_2019]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 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_area (numerical): 222.34 mm2 (185.2-265.5 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_length (numerical): 21.75 mm (8-40 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (5-35 mm) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 311.99 g/m2 (238.1-384.62 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: Crisp_2017; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Read_2005; Wheeler_2002]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Crisp_2017; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): proteoid_root (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Crisp_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (1) [sources: Crisp_2017]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Harvey_2017; Standish_2019]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.98 mg/g (12.7-19.2 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.22 mg/g (0.13-0.25 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 29.3 mg (29.3-29.3 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.3-0.8 m) [sources: Crisp_2017; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Read_2005	8	36	J. Read, G. D. Sanson, and B. B. Lamont. “Leaf mechanical properties in sclerophyll woodland and shrubland on contrasting soils”. Plant and Soil 276 (2005), pp. 95-113. doi: 10.1007/s11104-005-3343-8.
Crisp_2017	10	14	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.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Harvey_2017	6	6	J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
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/.
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.
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.