Gastrolobium brevipes
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Gastrolobium brevipes Crisp
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Chandler_2002 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Nano_2011 (7), 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 24 traits from 41 records in 11 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): fire_killed (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (6-20 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): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); barochory (1); endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2.5-2.5 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler_2002 | 7 | 10 | G. 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. |
| Nano_2011 | 6 | 7 | C. 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. |
| 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/. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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. |