AusTraits

Hovea pedunculata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Hovea pedunculata I.Thomps. & J.H.Ross

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hovea lanigera Lodd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hovea sp. (Cathedral Rock NP J.B.Williams AQ510636)) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hovea sp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hovea sp. O (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_2009 (5), Clarke_2015 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 71 records in 12 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • 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): 39.17 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (5-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.3-0.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); 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 (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; 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 (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Thompson_2001]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 32.01 mg (30.4-33.63 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2.5-2.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231114N. 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_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.
Clarke_201536P. 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.
Clarke_200935P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.