AusTraits

Indigofera trifoliata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Indigofera trifoliata L.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anil trifoliata A.D.Chapm. (orthographic variant)
  • Anila trifoliata (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Indigofera trifoliata L. subsp. trifoliata (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wilson_2008 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 59 records in 13 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.25 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.38 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20.25 mm (12-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.12 mm (2.5-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • leaf_lamina_division (categorical): trifoliate (1) [sources: Wilson_2008]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5); subshrub (3) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wilson_2008]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wilson_2008]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1); woody_base (1); woody_root (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.2 mg (1.2-1.2 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wilson_2008]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231115D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wilson_20081015P. G. Wilson and R. Rowe. “A revision of the Indigofereae (Fabaceae) in Australia. 2. Indigofera species with trifoliolate and alternately pinnate leaves”. Telopea 12 (2008), pp. 293-307.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.