Senna pleurocarpa var. pleurocarpa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna pleurocarpa (F.Muell.) Randell var. pleurocarpa

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cassia pleurocarpa F.Muell. var. pleurocarpa (nomenclatural synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), ANBG_2019 (2), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (7), Nano_2011 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Stephens_2021 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 83 records in 19 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2); resprouts (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 52.5 mm (35-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 58.75 mm (20-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 8.75 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblong (1) [sources: 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

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (2); nnynyyyynyyn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NSWFRD_2014; Stephens_2021]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (3); none (1); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.66 mg (11.67-15.65 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.48 m (0.4-3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	10	18	N. 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/.
ABRS_2023	9	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	7	7	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Nano_2011	6	7	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Stephens_2021	1	3	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
ANBG_2019	2	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.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/.
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.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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/.
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.