Lysiphyllum hookeri

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Lysiphyllum hookeri (F.Muell.) Pedley

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bauhinia hookeri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Bauhinia hookeri F.Muell. var. hookeri (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (8), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kooyman_2011 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tomlinson_2013 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 91 records in 15 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 140 mm (60-220 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 130 mm2 (130-130 mm2) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 21 mm (10-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.75 cm (1.5-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 43.03 g/m2 (43.03-43.03 g/m2) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 9.41 mm2/mg (9.41-9.41 mm2/mg) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.4 g/g (0.4-0.4 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.44 g/g (0.44-0.44 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; Tomlinson_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (2); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 32.37 mg/g (32.37-32.37 mg/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.34 mg/g (2.34-2.34 mg/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 346.49 mg (319.57-400 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 12.88 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 1.06 mg/mm3 (1.06-1.06 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.36 g/g (0.36-0.36 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Tomlinson_2013	14	14	K. W. Tomlinson, L. Poorter, F. J. Sterck, F. Borghetti, D. Ward, S. de Bie, and F. van Langevelde. “Leaf adaptations of evergreen and deciduous trees of semi-arid and humid savannas on three continents”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2013), pp. 430-440. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12056.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Chen_2017	8	8	Chen, 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.
Kooyman_2011	7	8	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Wright_2000	6	6	I. 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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.