AusTraits

Hovea tasmanica

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Family Fabaceae

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

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hovea lanceolata Sims (misapplied)
  • Hovea longifolia R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Thompson_2001 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 44 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 38.33 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.33 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.3-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Thompson_2001]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; 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): nnnnnnnnyynn (1) [sources: Thompson_2001]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 32.15 mg (32.15-32.15 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]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; Thompson_2001]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
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.