AusTraits

Senna phyllodinea

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna phyllodinea (R.Br.) Symon

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassia artemisioides var. phyllodinea F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cassia phyllodinea R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cassia platypoda var. simplicifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Senna form taxon 'petiolaris' (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Senna artemisioides subsp. x petiolaris Randell (pro parte misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Leishman_1992 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stewart_1995 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 70 records in 14 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): 65 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 50 mm2 (50-50 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (2); narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); spreading (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (2); hydrochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (1); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.27 {delta}[ppth] (-26.4--26.2 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.73 mg (12.76-15.09 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1992]
  • 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.
NHNSW_20231014N. 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.
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/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
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.
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.
Stewart_199513G. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.