Gastrolobium grandiflorum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium grandiflorum F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gastrolobium grandiflorum F.Muell. var. grandiflorum (nomenclatural synonym)
Gastrolobium grandiflorum var. luteum L.R.Kerr (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chandler_2002 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (28), Zieminska_2013 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 93 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

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_area (numerical): 1528 mm2 (1528-1528 mm2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 61.5 mm (49-74 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (23-32 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 148.3 g/m2 (148.3-148.3 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014]

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): nyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.52 mg/g (14.52-14.52 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.33 mg/g (0.33-0.33 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.18 {delta}[ppth] (-26.18--26.18 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22.52 mg (22.52-22.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.7 mg/mm3 (0.68-0.72 mg/mm3) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 233.68 {count}/mm2 (231.47-235.71 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 31.95 um (31.07-32.63 um) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.19 mm2/mm2 (0.18-0.2 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Zieminska_2013	10	30	K. Ziemińska, D. W. Butler, S. M. Gleason, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms”. AoB PLANTS 5 (2013), p. plt046. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt046.
Westoby_2014	28	28	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
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.
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/.
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).
Nano_2011	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.