Gastrolobium leakeanum
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Gastrolobium leakeanum J.Drumm.
Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Callistachys atropurpureum Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Callistachys atropurpureus (Turcz.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia atropurpurea (Turcz.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia atropurpurea (Turcz.) Domin var. atropurpurea (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia atropurpurea Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia atropurpurea var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia leakeana (J.Drumm.) Crisp (nomenclatural synonym)
- Oxylobium atropurpureum Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (5), Chandler_2002 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Pickup_2021 (5), Sjostrom_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 20 traits from 32 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
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): 57.5 mm (50-65 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Chandler_2002; Pickup_2021; 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]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnynnn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.82 mg (6.82-6.82 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler_2002 | 6 | 8 | 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. |
| Barrett_2009 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Pickup_2021 | 5 | 5 | M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |