Tephrosia pumila
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Tephrosia pumila (Lam.) Pers.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Galega pumila Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Tephrosia sp. (Bickerton Island G.Leach+ 3427) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 11 records in 6 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) [sources: Nano_2011]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.11 mg (6.11-6.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |