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Gastrolobium celsianum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium celsianum (Lem.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachysema acuminatum Jacques (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema celsianum Lem. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum Meisn. var. lanceolatum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum var. hypargyreum Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum var. planifolia Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema lanceolatum var. planifolium Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema platyptera Lem. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachysema speciosa Lesc. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachysema speciosum Lesc. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyzema acuminata Jacques (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pontania celsiana Lem. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chandler_2002 (11), Collette_2021 (1), Schmidt_1993 (1), Shedley_2007 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 60 records in 14 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.75 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24 mm (4-55 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Chandler_2002; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); decumbent (1); prostrate (2) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2]
  • root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Shedley_2007]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.2 m (1.2-1.2 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

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.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
Wright_200066I. 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.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Shedley_200755E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.