Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Stylosanthes fruticosa, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced3 Source not recorded9 Not on the record1 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Retz.) Alston	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	H.Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl.): 77 (1931)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1931	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Shrubby pencilflower	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Africa, Arabian Pen., India to Myanmar, Sri Lanka	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Growth habit	Subshrub, Shrub	Subshrub, Shrub · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Maximum height	empty	100 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 60	Not on the record
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 460	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	High	High · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 9 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 130, 444, 445	Sourced

Stylosanthes fruticosa (Retz.) Alston, 1931 14% complete

Shrubby pencilflower

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