AusTraits

Podolobium alpestre

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Podolobium alpestre (F.Muell.) Crisp & P.H.Weston

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callistachys alpestris (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium alpestre F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Oxylobium alpestre F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Carey_2003 (3), Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Doherty_2021 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lim_2017 (42), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (34). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 158 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 (4) [sources: Carey_2003; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Carey_2003; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.25 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 38.28 mm2 (18.72-60.67 mm2) [sources: Lim_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.67 mm (3-14 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 6.05 mg (2.71-9.5 mg) [sources: Lim_2017]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 134.62 g/m2 (68.03-182.87 g/m2) [sources: Lim_2017; Vesk_2007]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2); whorled (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9) [sources: Lim_2017; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Carey_2003; Clarke_2015; Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.73 mg (3.73-3.73 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: Lim_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Lim_2017642F. K. Lim, L. J. Pollock, and P. A. Vesk. “The role of plant functional traits in shrub distribution around alpine frost hollows”. Journal of Vegetation Science 28.3 (2017), pp. 585-594. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12517.
White_20201734M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231417VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231113N. 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/.
NSWFRD_201499B. 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.
Cheal_201788D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Vesk_200726P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Carey_200333A. C. &. M. E. &. P. H. &. M. L. &. T. M. &. P. O. &. S. S. &. D. S. &. N. Webb. Wildfires in the ACT 2003: Report on Initial Impacts on Natural Ecosystems. Technical Report No. 17. Environment ACT, 2003. url: https://www.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/2539593/17-wildfires-in-the-act-report-on-initial-impacts-on-natural-ecosystems-2003.pdf.
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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Doherty_202122M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
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.