Tamarindus indica

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Tamarindus indica L.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Tamarindus indicus F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (9), Kew_2019_4 (3), Kew_2019_6 (5), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), Stephens_2023 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 136 records in 19 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 97.5 mm (35-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume_indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 17 mm (5-26 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.58 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.4-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
pollination_system (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 639.05 mg (376.88-1136.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 12.67 mm (10-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 19.8 m (10-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	21	29	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	15	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	13	17	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/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kew_2019_1	1	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wright_2000	5	5	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_4	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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_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/.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
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.