Abutilon lepidum
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Abutilon lepidum (F.Muell.) A.S.Mitch.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sida lepida F.Muell. (basionym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (6), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 29 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: 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): herb (1); shrub (2); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spindly (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): passive (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.08 mg (2.08-2.08 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.38 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 6 | 6 | 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/. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| 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/. |
| 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_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |