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Kennedia coccinea

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Kennedia coccinea (Curtis) Vent.

Synonyms: 31 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caulinia coccinea (Curtis) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Caulinia coccinea (Curtis) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Caulinia eximia (Lindl. ex Paxton) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Caulinia eximia (Lindl. ex Paxton) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Caulinia inophylla (Lindl.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Glycine coccinea Curtis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kennedia coccinea var. angustifolia (Lindl.) Diels (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia coccinea var. elegans Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia coccinea var. inophylla (Lindl.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia coccinea var. villosa (Lindl.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia dilatata A.Cunn. ex Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia dilatata Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia eximia Lindl. ex Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia heterophylla Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia inophylla Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia inophylla Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedia pannosa (Paxton) Daveau (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedya coccinea Domin (orthographic variant)
  • Kennedya coccinea var. inophylla Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedya coccinea var. villosa Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kennedya inophylla Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya angustifolia Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya coccinea (Curtis) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zichya coccinea (Curtis) Hügel (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zichya dilatata (A.Cunn. ex Lindl.) Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya inophylla (Lindl.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya inophylla (Lindl.) Hügel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya pannosa Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya sericea Hügel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya tricolor Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zichya villosa Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), Pekin_2011 (4), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (9), Stephens_2021 (1), Sweedman_2006 (8), WAH_2022_2 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (9), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 70 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 52.5 mm (15-90 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25.5 mm (6-45 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); shrub (4) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): mat-forming (1); prostrate (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); cluster_roots (1); non_mycorrhizal (1); proteoid_root (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1.67 a (1.67-1.67 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 24.08 mg (11.02-29.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Standish_201999R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Wheeler_200279J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Sweedman_200628L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_248Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Pekin_201144B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.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.
Clarke_201533P. 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_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_199322S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Stephens_202111R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.