Pultenaea muelleri

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Pultenaea muelleri Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pultenaea muelleri Benth. var. muelleri (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Caldwell_2016 (29), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Peeters_2002 (12), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 108 records in 10 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 21.72 mm2 (18-26.1 mm2) [sources: Caldwell_2016; Peeters_2002]
leaf_length (numerical): 13 mm (7-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.88 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 1.44 mg (1.2-1.6 mg) [sources: Caldwell_2016]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 73.81 g/m2 (61.3-80 g/m2) [sources: Caldwell_2016; Peeters_2002]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.69 g/g (0.47-0.94 g/g) [sources: Caldwell_2016]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Peeters_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; Peeters_2002; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: McGlone_2015; Peeters_2002; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Peeters_2002]
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): zoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 18.04 mg/g (15.9-19.53 mg/g) [sources: Caldwell_2016; Peeters_2002]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.49 mg (0.49-0.49 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.25 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Caldwell_2016	6	29	E. Caldwell, J. Read, and G. D. Sanson. “Which leaf mechanical traits correlate with insect herbivory among feeding guilds?”. Annals of Botany 117 (2015), pp. 349-361. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcv178.
Peeters_2002	12	12	P. J. Peeters. “Correlations between leaf structural traits and the densities of herbivorous insect guilds”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77 (2002), pp. 43-65. doi: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00091.x.
RBGV_2023	10	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.