Tephrosia brachyodon var. longifolia
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Tephrosia brachyodon var. longifolia (Benth.) Domin
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cracca purpurea var. longifolia (Benth.) Britten (nomenclatural synonym)
- Tephrosia purpurea var. longifolia Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (15), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 23 records in 5 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: NTH_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2014 | 11 | 15 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |