Swainsona bracteata
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Swainsona bracteata (Maiden & Betche) Joy Thomps.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Swainsona greyana subsp. bracteata (Maiden & Betche) A.T.Lee (nomenclatural synonym)
- Swainsona greyana var. bracteata Maiden & Betche (basionym)
Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 45 records in 7 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): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody_base (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_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): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 20 | 20 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| NHNSW_2023 | 7 | 11 | 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/. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 4 | 4 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |