AusTraits

Senna artemisioides subsp. oligophylla

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna artemisioides subsp. oligophylla (F.Muell.) Randell

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassia oligophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cassia oligophylla F.Muell. var. oligophylla (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Senna form taxon 'oligophylla' (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Senna sp. Millstream (E.Leyland s.n. 30/8/1990) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (15), Jurado_1991 (6), Jurado_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Nano_2011 (4), Pate_1998 (6), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (6), Schulze_2014 (9), Stewart_1995 (9), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 136 records in 24 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); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (70-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 150 mm2 (150-150 mm2) [sources: Jurado_1991]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 332.92 g/m2 (253.57-462.6 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Pate_1998; Stewart_1995; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jurado_1991; NSWFRD_2014; Pate_1998; SAH_2022; Stewart_1995; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Pate_1998; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (1); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Schulze_2014; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (3); non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; Pate_1998; Schulze_2014; Stewart_1995; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); epizoochory (1) [sources: Jurado_1991; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1); nnnnnyyyyyyn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.58 mg/g (11.66-23 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.78 mg/g (0.78-0.78 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.48 {delta}[ppth] (-29.24--24.78 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Pate_1998; Schulze_2014; Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18.86 mg (16.02-21.69 mg) [sources: Jurado_1991; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231218Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Dong_2017815N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Schulze_201499E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
Stewart_199569G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
NSWFRD_201488B. 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.
Jurado_199166E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828.
Pate_199866J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
SAH_202366S. 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/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Nano_201134C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Jurado_199213E. Jurado and M. Westoby. “Germination biology of selected central Australian plants”. Austral Ecology 17.3 (1992), pp. 341-348. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1992.tb00816.x.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Wright_200011I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.