Sophora tomentosa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Sophora tomentosa L.

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

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (8), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (6), Kooyman_2011 (11), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (21), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 119 records in 18 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

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 128.33 mm (60-200 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10.67 mm (6-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (14-14 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2); legume_indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (20-200 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 26.83 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); orbicular (1); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1); nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyynnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 119.5 mg (71.43-165.76 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 7.12 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.62 m (3.5-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	15	21	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/.
NTH_2023	14	20	D. 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/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	10	12	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kooyman_2011	9	11	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_1	1	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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_3	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
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.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.