AusTraits

Dendrolobium umbellatum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aeschynomene arborea L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Desmodium umbellatum (L.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hedysarum umbellatum L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 42 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 29 mm (8-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (35-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 214.41 mg (8.46-625 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wright_200033I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.