Pultenaea tenella
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Pultenaea tenella Benth.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), McGlone_2015 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tolsma_2007 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 61 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; Tolsma_2007; White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
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_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); subshrub (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1); woody_root (1) [sources: Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
- 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): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| RBGV_2023 | 9 | 10 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Cheal_2017 | 8 | 8 | D. 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. |
| Tolsma_2007 | 7 | 8 | A. D. Tolsma, S. M. Read, and K. G. Tolhurst. “Roots of Australian alpine plant species contain high levels of stored carbohydrates independent of post-fire regeneration strategy”. Australian Journal of Botany 55.8 (2007), pp. 771-779. doi: 10.1071/BT06216. |
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |