Sphaerolobium acanthos
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Sphaerolobium acanthos Crisp
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sphaerolobium sp. (Grampians) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sphaerolobium daviesioides Turcz. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Vic
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 57 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4.5-4.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.2-0.2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_shape (categorical): subulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1); leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| RBGV_2023 | 12 | 13 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Cheal_2017 | 8 | 8 | D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010. |
| McGlone_2015 | 6 | 6 | M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007. |
| RBGV_2022 | 4 | 4 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |