Oxytes brachypoda

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Oxytes brachypoda (A.Gray) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Desmodium brachypodum A.Gray (nomenclatural synonym)
Desmodium indigotinum Harms & K.Schum. (taxonomic synonym)
Meibomia brachypoda (A.Gray) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Meibomia brachypodia Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Hughes_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (9), NTH_2014 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (27), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 116 records in 18 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

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): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.15 mm (2.8-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_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_length (numerical): 46.4 mm (15-78 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 29.6 mm (7-62 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.75 cm (2-5.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); orbicular (1); ovate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (1); herb (3); shrub (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: White_2020]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2); erect (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (2); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); mammals (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.55 mg (3.55-3.55 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.1 mm (3-3.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.85 mm (1.7-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.56 m (0.05-1 m) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	27	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/.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	10	14	N. 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/.
RBGV_2023	10	14	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	9	9	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
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/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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.
NTH_2014	1	1	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.