AusTraits

Hovea cymbiformis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea cymbiformis I.Thomps.

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

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 61 records in 9 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
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 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): 23.33 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.22 cm (0.15-0.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (2); conduplicate (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) [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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Thompson_2001]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.05 mg (21.05-21.05 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231619N. 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/.
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Thompson_2001914I. 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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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.