Hovea planifolia
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Hovea planifolia (Domin) J.H.Ross
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hovea longifolia subvar. planifolia Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
- Hovea longifolia var. purpurea (Sweet) Domin (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
- Hovea sp. 1 (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Clarke_2015 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), McCarthy_2017 (12), 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 52 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
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_area (numerical): 781.07 mm2 (736.64-874.81 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
- leaf_width (numerical): 17 mm (9-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.3-0.9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 140.87 g/m2 (109.14-168.23 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (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): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Thompson_2001]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 48.66 mg (48.66-48.66 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5.5-6.5 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Thompson_2001]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.76 mg/mm3 (0.73-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
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. |
| McCarthy_2017 | 3 | 12 | J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221. |
| 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. |
| 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/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |