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Lysiphyllum gilvum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Lysiphyllum gilvum (F.M.Bailey) Pedley

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bauhinia cunninghamii f. gilva F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bauhinia cunninghamii f. rosea F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bauhinia cunninghamii subsp. gilva (F.M.Bailey) K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bauhinia gilva (F.M.Bailey) A.S.George (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bauhinia leichhardtii var. cinerascens F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bauhinia carronii F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stewart_1995 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 96 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 26.83 mm (14-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.7-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Stewart_1995]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Stewart_1995; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (2); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2014_2]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -25.23 {delta}[ppth] (-26.1--24.4 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 155 mg (155-155 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 13.67 mm (11-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (6-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231420Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231216N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_20231213S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Stewart_1995611G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
Chen_201788Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Munroe_201912S. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.