AusTraits

Gastrolobium dilatatum

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Family Fabaceae

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

Synonyms: 20 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callistachys cuneata (Benth.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata (Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata (Benth.) Domin var. cuneata (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata var. cuneifolia (Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata var. cuneifolium Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata var. dilatata (Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata var. obovata (Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia cuneata var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nemcia dilatata (Benth.) Crisp (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium cuneatum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium cuneatum Benth. var. cuneatum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium cuneatum var. cuneifolium Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium cuneatum var. dilatatum (Benth.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium cuneatum var. obovatum (Benth.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium dilatatum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium dilatatum Benth. var. dilatatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium obovatum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium obovatum Benth. var. obovatum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium obovatum var. angustatum Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Oxylobium obovatum var. latifolium Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chandler_2002 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), Sweedman_2006 (3), 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 20 traits from 33 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Chandler_2002; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Chandler_2002; Standish_2019; 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]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.48 mg (5.48-5.48 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Chandler_200268G. 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.
Standish_201966R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.