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Vandasina retusa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Vandasina retusa (Benth.) Rauschert

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caulinia retusa (Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Caulinia retusa (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dolichos obcordatus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Glycine retusa Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hardenbergia retusa Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kennedia retusa (Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kennedya retusa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vandaisia retusa B.Hyland (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vandasia retusa (Benth.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Hyland_2003 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2016 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 51 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 75 mm (60-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19 mm (13-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3426 mm2 (3426-3426 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 85 mm (30-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 77.5 mm (30-125 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (2); shrub (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: Hyland_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 72.02 mg (72.02-72.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022912L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
NHNSW_201633National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Hyland_200311B. P. M. Hyland, T. Whiffin, D. Christophel, B. Gray, and R. W. Elick. Australian tropical rain forest plants trees, shrubs and vines. CSIRO Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0643068724.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.