Abutilon indicum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Abutilon asiaticum (L.) Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
Sida asiatica L. (taxonomic synonym)
Sida indica L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, CSI, Vic (formerly naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (28), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 78 records in 15 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 18.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); mericarp (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 116.25 mm (35-230 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 95 mm (20-200 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 7 cm (2-12 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1); nyyyyyyyynnn (1); nyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.58 mg (1.92-3.17 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.52 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.48 m (0.3-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	16	28	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993	8	10	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.