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Senna circinnata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna circinnata (Benth.) Randell

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassia circinnata Benth. (basionym)
  • Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata (Benth.) Randell (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Leishman_1992 (7), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), Pate_1998 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (76), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 148 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 90 mm (60-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; 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_area (numerical): 23 mm2 (23-23 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (8-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (5) [sources: Pate_1998; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (9); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; Pate_1998; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; Pate_1998; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (4); non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pate_1998; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (5) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (5); hydrochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (4); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.99 {delta}[ppth] (-26.99--26.99 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16.24 mg (16.09-16.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1992]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201976M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231117Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023914N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Leishman_199277M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
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.
Wright_200055I. 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.
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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. 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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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/.
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.