Gastrolobium trilobum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Gastrolobium trilobum Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gastrolobium spinosum var. trilobum S.Moore (taxonomic 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), Harvey_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Read_2005 (36), 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 31 traits from 76 records in 12 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 (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Harvey_2017]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 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_area (numerical): 89.18 mm2 (69.9-115.7 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_length (numerical): 23.5 mm (11-36 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 249.3 g/m2 (198.81-293.26 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Read_2005]

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); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: Chandler_2002]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Harvey_2017]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.52 mg/g (13.4-17 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.38 mg/g (0.28-0.46 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.5 mg (4.5-4.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chandler_2002]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.8 m (1.8-1.8 m) [sources: Chandler_2002; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Read_2005	8	36	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.
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.
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.
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.
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.