Senna gaudichaudii
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Senna gaudichaudii (Hook. & Arn.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cassia deplanchei Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia gaudichaudii Hook. & Arn. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Cassia horsfieldii Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia retusa Vogel (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia retusa Vogel var. retusa (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia retusa var. dietrichiae Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia retusa var. glabrata Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Cassia retusa var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Psilorhegma gaudichaudii (Hook. & Arn.) O.Deg. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Senna surattensis subsp. retusa (Vogel) Randell (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 62 records in 11 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_length (numerical): 110 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 11 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 20.5 mm (7-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1); nyyyyyyyyynn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 15.48 mg (15.48-15.48 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 8 m (2-11 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 16 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 10 | 12 | R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x. |
| Chen_2017 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| ABRS_1981 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |