Sesbania brachycarpa
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Sesbania brachycarpa F.Muell.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sesbania aculeata var. parviflora Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (4), Jurado_1991 (5), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 25 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
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): 58 mm2 (58-58 mm2) [sources: Jurado_1991]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); subshrub (1) [sources: Jurado_1991; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Jurado_1991; Kew_2019_5]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17.62 mg (16.83-18.41 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 4.34 mm (4.34-4.34 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_width (numerical): 2.61 mm (2.61-2.61 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jurado_1991 | 5 | 5 | E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828. |
| ANBG_2019 | 4 | 4 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| 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. |
| 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 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_5 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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. |