Stylosanthes scabra
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Stylosanthes scabra Vogel
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (9), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 35 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.
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1); legume_indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 13 mm (9-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5.75 mm (3.5-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (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 (2); shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.38 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| NTH_2023 | 7 | 9 | 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 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |