Templetonia rossii
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Templetonia rossii (F.Muell.) I.Thomps.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bossiaea rossii F.Muell. (basionym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NSW, Vic
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), 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 48 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 12.75 mm (7.5-18 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5.75 mm (4-7.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (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. |
| RBGV_2023 | 11 | 13 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| RBGV_2022 | 3 | 3 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| 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. |