AusTraits

Hovea clavata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea clavata I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hovea sp. (Deepwater NP N.Gibson TOI593) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 39 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.75 mm (25-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.2-0.4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Thompson_2001; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Thompson_2001; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Thompson_2001]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 26.68 mg (26.68-26.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4.5-4.5 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Thompson_2001913I. R. Thompson. “Morphometric analysis and revision of eastern Australian Hovea (Brongniartieae-Fabaceae)”. Australian Systematic Botany 14 (2001), pp. 1-99. doi: 10.1071/sb00008.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.