Gastrolobium capitatum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium capitatum (Benth.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callistachys capitata (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Gastrolobium sp. Harvey (G.J.Keighery 16821) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Nemcia capitata (Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Oxylobium capitatum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Oxylobium capitatum Benth. var. capitatum (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chandler_2002 (9), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Enright_2014 (17), Kew_2019_1 (1), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Standish_2019 (6), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), Wheeler_2002 (20), Wilson_2004 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 106 records in 16 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 (2); resprouts (9) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Standish_2019; Wilson_2004]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (9) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 41.17 mm (5-90 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.78 mm (0.2-15 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9) [sources: Chandler_2002; Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (9) [sources: Chandler_2002; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); erect (1); prostrate (3) [sources: Chandler_2002; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (3); ectomycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002; Tsakalos_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Enright_2014; Standish_2019]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.04 mg (6.04-6.04 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.06 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wheeler_2002	8	20	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Tsakalos_2020	17	18	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Enright_2014	3	17	N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306.
Chandler_2002	7	9	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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Standish_2019	6	6	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	2	2	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.
Schmidt_1993	2	2	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wilson_2004	2	2	B. A. Wilson, J. Kuehs, L. E. Valentine, T. Sonneman, and K. M. Wolfe. “Guidelines for ecological burning regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems: a case study in Banksia woodlands in Western Australia”. Pacific Conservation Biology 20.1 (2014), p. 57. doi: 10.1071/pc140057.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.