Gastrolobium spathulatum
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Gastrolobium spathulatum Benth.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Gastrolobium spathulatum Benth. var. spathulatum (nomenclatural synonym)
- Gastrolobium spathulatum var. latifolium Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Nemcia spathulata (Benth.) Crisp (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chandler_2002 (10), Collette_2021 (1), 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 21 traits from 37 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: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 18 mo (18-18 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
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): 15 mm (8-22 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; 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]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1.5 a (1.5-1.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 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. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 5 | 5 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 5 | 5 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |