Stylosanthes hamata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Stylosanthes hamata (L.) Taub.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hedysarum hamatum L. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (11), Schmidt_2003 (25), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 50 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 19 mm (10-28 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.28 g/g (0.28-0.28 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1); nnnyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 25 mg/g (21-28 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.86 {delta}[ppth] (-30.68--26.24 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.5-0.7 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schmidt_2003	9	25	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
NTH_2023	8	11	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/.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Stephens_2021	1	2	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.