Hovea longipes

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea longipes Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hovea leiocarpa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 102 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: Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

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): 12.25 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 29 mm (5-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.38 mm (4-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: 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 (6); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyynnnn (1); nnyyyyyyynnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; Thompson_2001]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 54.64 mg (54.64-54.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 5.17 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	16	22	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	10	15	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.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
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/.
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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.