Senna sophera
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Senna sophera (L.) Roxb.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cassia sophera L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (6), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 46 records in 8 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_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 4235.75 mm2 (3396.36-4895.94 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 68.76 g/m2 (66.09-75.21 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.32 mg (11.29-12.95 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.65-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCarthy_2017 | 3 | 15 | J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 10 | 14 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 6 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |