Gastrolobium racemosum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium racemosum (Turcz.) Crisp

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chorizema magnifolium F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Chorozema magnifolium F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Mirbelia racemosa Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Oxylobium bennettsii C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
Oxylobium racemosum (Turcz.) C.A.Gardner (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Barrett_2009 (4), Chandler_2002 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), 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 18 traits from 30 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [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_length (numerical): 35.5 mm (25-46 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 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): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.09 mg (8.09-8.09 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]

whole plant morphology

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

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
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.
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/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.