AusTraits

Gastrolobium ebracteolatum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium ebracteolatum G.Chandler & Crisp

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callistachya linearis Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Callistachys linearis Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chorizema lineare (Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chorozema lineare F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium lineare (Benth.) Benth. (nomenclatural 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), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 50 records in 10 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
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Chandler_2002; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Chandler_2002; Tsakalos_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.12 mg (3.12-3.12 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Tsakalos_20201718J. 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.
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.
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.
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/.
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.