Senna cardiosperma
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Senna cardiosperma (F.Muell.) Randell
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cassia cardiosperma F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (8), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 29 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.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_width (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; WAH_2023_2]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1); hydrochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_1981]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_1981 | 6 | 8 | B. 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/. |
| Chen_2017 | 4 | 4 | Chen, 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. |
| 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 2 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| 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. |