Flemingia trifoliata
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Flemingia trifoliata (Jungh.) C.Y.Wu
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Flemingia involucrata Wall. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lepidocoma trifoliatum Jungh. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lotodes testariae (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Maughania involucrata (Wall. ex Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Moghania involucrata Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Psoralea testariae F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (17), RussellSmith_2012 (4), 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 28 traits from 40 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5.5-5.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (40-115 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (15-75 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.4 m (1.3-1.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 15 | 17 | 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/. |
| 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/. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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_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/. |
| NTH_2014 | 3 | 3 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| 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. |