Swainsona burkei

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Swainsona burkei F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Swainsona burkei F.Muell. ex Benth. subsp. burkei (nomenclatural synonym)
Swainsonia burkei F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (1), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 47 records in 13 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 33.5 mm (8-60 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (3-12 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1) [sources: NTH_2022]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.29 mg (2.29-2.29 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	13	20	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	6	8	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/.
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.
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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_2022	2	2	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wenk_2023_2	1	1	E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.