Hovea acutifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea acutifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), ANBG_2019 (7), Benwell_2024 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), McCarthy_2017 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 81 records in 15 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: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 55.83 mm (30-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_width (numerical): 11.17 mm (3-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.3-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Thompson_2001; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Thompson_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; Thompson_2001]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 29.3 mg (27.51-30.53 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.8 mm (4.59-5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Thompson_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 3.44 mm (3.38-3.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Thompson_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019; NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.74 mg/mm3 (0.71-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.67 m (4-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	11	13	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Thompson_2001	9	13	I. R. Thompson. “Morphometric analysis and revision of eastern Australian Hovea (Brongniartieae-Fabaceae)”. Australian Systematic Botany 14 (2001), pp. 1-99. doi: 10.1071/sb00008.
ANBG_2019	6	7	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wright_2000	6	6	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.
McCarthy_2017	1	5	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.