Jacksonia dilatata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Jacksonia dilatata Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Piptomeris dilalata Greene (nomenclatural synonym)
Piptomeris dilatata (Benth.) Greene (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (1), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (25), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 90 records in 17 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
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): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 514 mm2 (514-514 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 69.58 mm (1.5-150 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (4-20 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 182.43 g/m2 (182.43-182.43 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.13 g/g (0.11-0.17 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.18 mg/g (10.8-15 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.45-0.45 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.25 {delta}[ppth] (-30.27--28.18 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.16 mg (3.16-3.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.7 mm (2.7-2.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.5 m (2-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schmidt_2003	11	25	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
NTH_2023	13	16	D. 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/.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Wright_2008	8	8	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. 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_2012	4	4	J. 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_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.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. 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.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.