Gastrolobium parviflorum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium parviflorum (Benth.) Crisp

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callistachys parviflora (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Nemcia parviflora (Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Oxylobium parviflorum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (7), Barrett_2009 (25), Chandler_2002 (10), Collette_2021 (1), Harvey_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), Read_2005 (70), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 145 records in 16 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 (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Harvey_2017]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (4) [sources: Barrett_2009]

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): 167.5 mm2 (114.9-246.5 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-11 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 221.05 g/m2 (174.22-272.48 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Read_2005]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [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): bushy (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Harvey_2017]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19.14 mg/g (16.2-20.9 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.28-0.62 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.1 mg (3.63-10.34 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.47 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Chandler_2002]
seed_width (numerical): 1.53 mm (1.53-1.53 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.92 m (0.2-2.5 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Read_2005	8	70	J. Read, G. D. Sanson, and B. B. Lamont. “Leaf mechanical properties in sclerophyll woodland and shrubland on contrasting soils”. Plant and Soil 276 (2005), pp. 95-113. doi: 10.1007/s11104-005-3343-8.
Barrett_2009	6	25	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.
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.
ANBG_2019	4	7	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Harvey_2017	6	6	J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
Kew_2019_6	1	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.