Hovea parvicalyx

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea parvicalyx I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hovea longifolia subvar. apiculata (G.Don) Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), ANBG_2019 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 42 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

fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_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 mm (35-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (6-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.4-0.9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); 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

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
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): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: Thompson_2001]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 5.08 mm (4.57-5.6 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Thompson_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 3.12 mm (2.93-3.6 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Thompson_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2.5-2.5 m) [sources: ABRS_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.
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	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.