Gastrolobium latifolium
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Gastrolobium latifolium (R.Br.) G.Chandler & Crisp
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Brachysema latifolium R.Br. (basionym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (4), Chandler_2002 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Gosper_2012 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), 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 23 traits from 39 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
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015]
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_length (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (10-55 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; 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): prostrate (2) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.05 m (0.05-0.05 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler_2002 | 8 | 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. |
| Gosper_2012 | 5 | 5 | C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x. |
| Barrett_2009 | 4 | 4 | S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009. |
| 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. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| 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/. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| 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. |