Retama raetam
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Retama raetam (Forssk.) Webb & Berthel.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Genista duriaei Spach (taxonomic synonym)
- Genista raetam Forssk. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lygos raetam (Forssk.) Heywood (nomenclatural synonym)
- Retama duriaei Webb (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2023 (12), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_1 (1), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 27 records in 9 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 (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); spathulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6.5-6.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAH_2023 | 12 | 12 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_1 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Yang_2023 | 2 | 3 | S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| SAH_2014 | 1 | 1 | J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986. |
| WAH_2023_1 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |