Desmodium tortuosum
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Desmodium purpureum (Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle (taxonomic synonym)
- Hedysarum purpureum Mill. (taxonomic synonym)
- Hedysarum tortuosum Sw. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Meibomia tortuosa (Sw.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (25), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 54 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 49.75 mm (13-110 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 21.25 mm (7-42 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (3); biennial (2); perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2.4 mm (1.8-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.65 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.4 m (1.2-3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 15 | 25 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| NTH_2022 | 4 | 4 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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. |
| 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |