AusTraits

Gastrolobium spinosum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium spinosum Benth.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gastrolobium preissii Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum Benth. f. spinosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum Benth. var. spinosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum f. angustum (E.Pritz.) D.A.Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum f. crassifolium D.A.Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum f. oliganthum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum f. parvifolium D.A.Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum f. typicum D.A.Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum var. angustum E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum var. inerme S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum var. microphyllum S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum var. subinerme Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gastrolobium spinosum var. subinerve A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (14), Burrows_2008_2 (7), Burrows_2020 (7), Chandler_2002 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Gosper_2012 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Read_2005 (70), Shedley_2007 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), Tsakalos_2022 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (20), vanderMoezel_1987 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 195 records in 21 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 (10) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 36 mo (36-36 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 (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 602.92 mm2 (439.8-781.5 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 21.5 mm (6-45 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15.5 mm (1-40 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 302.87 g/m2 (270.27-343.64 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (3) [sources: Read_2005; Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1); flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (10); tree (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Chandler_2002; Gosper_2012; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (9) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Chandler_2002; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); erect (2); open (1); prostrate (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 3 a (3-3 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Chandler_2002; Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (8) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2012; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.41 mg (10.3-12.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Read_2005870J. 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.
Wheeler_2002820J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Tsakalos_20201718J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Barrett_2009614S. 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_2002710G. 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.
Shedley_2007510E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Burrows_2008_277N. 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_202077N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Gosper_201266C. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
vanderMoezel_198733P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Tsakalos_202222J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.