Senna glutinosa subsp. chatelainiana

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna glutinosa subsp. chatelainiana (Gaudich.) Randell

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cassia chatelainiana Gaudich. (nomenclatural synonym)
Senna form taxon 'chatelainiana' (taxonomic synonym)
Senna glutinosa f. 'acifolia' Randell (taxonomic synonym)
Senna glutinosa f. 'aplinii' Randell (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Schulze_2014 (8), 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 28 traits from 45 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 31.5 mm (6-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 426.08 g/m2 (426.08-426.08 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
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) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 23.51 mg/g (23.51-23.51 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.11 {delta}[ppth] (-27.11--27.11 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.73 mg (12.73-12.73 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.9 m (0.6-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schulze_2014	8	8	E. 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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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/.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	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.
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.