AusTraits

Vigna vexillata var. angustifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Vigna vexillata var. angustifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) Baker

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Plectrotropis angustifolia Schumach. & Thonn. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (3), NHNSW_2016 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (7), NTH_2014 (9), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 47 records in 10 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 90 mm (40-140 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 6650 mm2 (6650-6650 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 71.5 mm (30-160 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 39.25 mm (5-85 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2-5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); herb (4) [sources: Lord_1997; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2); prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Lord_1997; NHNSW_2016]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnnnyy (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 14.85 mg (9.3-20.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231014N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_201479Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NSWFRD_201477B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NHNSW_201622National 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.