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Gastrolobium bracteolosum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium bracteolosum (F.Muell.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachysema bracteolosum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum var. glabrescens Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cupulanthus bracteolosus Hutch. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cupulanthus bracteolosus J.W.Green (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chandler_2002 (11), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), 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 16 traits from 26 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (30-125 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (2-22 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Chandler_2002811G. T. Chandler, M. D. Crisp, L. W. Cayzer, and R. J. Bayer. “Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)”. Australian Systematic Botany 15 (2002), pp. 619-739. doi: 10.1071/sb01010.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.