AusTraits

Senna procumbens

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna procumbens Randell

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (5), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 52 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (50-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50.75 mm (35-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 11.75 mm (7-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; NTH_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023915Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231013D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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.
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/.
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.