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Acalypha lanceolata

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Acalypha lanceolata Willd.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acalypha fallax Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acalypha indica var. australis F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acalypha wightiana Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ricinocarpos lanceolatus (Willd.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ricinocarpus lanceolatus Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (24), ATRP_2020 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 43 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.1 mm (2-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.1 mm (2-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.59 mg (0.59-0.59 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.45 mm (1.1-1.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.8-1.1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.3-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231724Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ATRP_202033F. 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.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.