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Erythrophleum chlorostachys

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Erythrophleum chlorostachys (F.Muell.) Baill.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erythrophleum chorostachys K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)
  • Erythrophleum laboucherei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erythrophleum laboucherei F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erythrophleum laboucherii Specht (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erythrophloem chlorostachys Chippend. (orthographic variant)
  • Erythrophloem chlorostachyum Chippend. (orthographic variant)
  • Erythrophloeum chlorostachys Baill. (orthographic variant)
  • Erythrophloeum laboucheri Henn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erythrophloeum laboucherii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Laboucheria chlorostachya F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Brock_1993 (12), Cernusak_2006 (49), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (15), Eamus_1999 (10), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (9), Lawes_2012 (65), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Myers_1997 (29), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), Nano_2011 (2), Prior_2003 (191), Rice_1991 (1), Richards_2008 (2), Rosell_2014 (8), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (36), Schulze_1998 (78), Schulze_2014 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (26), Wright_2000 (1), Wright_2008 (31), Wright_2019 (451), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 131 traits from 1,178 records in 43 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 143.33 mm (70-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 31.5 mm (22-43 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5304.73 mm2 (505.57-38060 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Schulze_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 54.06 mm (20-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.25 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 224.65 mg (66.33-409.6 mg) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5.5 cm (3-8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 120.12 g/m2 (70.92-233.22 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Schulze_1998; Schulze_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.42 g/g (0.3-0.67 g/g) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.29 g/g (0.04-0.51 g/g) [sources: Myers_1997; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.1 g/g (0.94-1.32 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (1); orbicular (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; Prior_2003; Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Schulze_2014]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Eamus_1999; Munroe_2019; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (13) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2); evergreen (2); facultative_drought_deciduous (2); semi_deciduous (5) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Eamus_1999; Kooyman_2011; Myers_1997; NTH_2014; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Schulze_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (6); non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Dong_2017; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Schulze_2014; Wright_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (2); epicormic_buds (1); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 22.87 mg/g (12.91-35.99 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Eamus_1999; Prior_2003; Richards_2008; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Schulze_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.69 mg/g (0.37-1.03 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Richards_2008; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.11 {delta}[ppth] (-31.86--23 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Schulze_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 472.38 mg (369.65-575.1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10.25 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.42-1.05 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Rosell_2014; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 14.6 m (1-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_201937451I. J. Wright, J. Cooke, L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, M. C. Scalon, W. C. Tozer, and C. E. R. Lehmann. “Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area”. Austral Ecology 44.2 (2018), pp. 339-350. doi: 10.1111/aec.12678.
Prior_200321191L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Schulze_1998878E. -. Schulze, R. J. Williams, G. D. Farquhar, W. Schulze, J. Langridge, J. M. Miller, and B. H. Walker. “Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25.4 (1998), pp. 413-425. doi: 10.1071/PP97113.
Lawes_2012165M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Cernusak_2006249L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, J. Beringer, and N. J. Tapper. “Stem and leaf gas exchange and their responses to fire in a north Australian tropical savanna”. Plant, Cell and Environment 29.4 (2006), pp. 632-646. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01442.x.
Schmidt_20031036S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Wright_2008931I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Myers_1997829B. A. Myers, G. A. Duff, D. Eamus, I. R. Fordyce, A. O'Grady, and R. J. Williams. “Seasonal Variation in Water Relations of Trees of Differing Leaf Phenology in a Wet - Dry Tropical Savanna near Darwin, Northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany 45.2 (1997), p. 225. doi: 10.1071/bt96015.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222329L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Westoby_20142626S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
NTH_20231625D. 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/.
Schulze_20141123E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Dong_2017815N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Eamus_19991010D. Eamus, B. Myers, G. Duff, and D. Williams. “Seasonal changes in photosynthesis of eight savanna tree species”. Tree Physiology 19 (1999), pp. 665-671. doi: 10.1093/treephys/19.10.665.
Kooyman_201189R. 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.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Ilic_200015J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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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/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Richards_200822A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.