Desmodium intortum
Explore the data for this taxon in the portal
Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Desmodium intortum (Mill.) Urb.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hedysarum intortum Mill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 records in 8 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
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; 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): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2-5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); herb (3); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); semi_woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| NHNSW_2023 | 9 | 13 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| ATRP_2020 | 3 | 3 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 2 | 2 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |