Androcalva fraseri

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Androcalva fraseri (J.Gay) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Commerconia fraseri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Commersonia fraseri J.Gay (nomenclatural synonym)
Commersonia fraseri J.Gay var. fraseri (nomenclatural synonym)
Commersonia fraseri var. macrophylla J.Gay (taxonomic synonym)
Commersonia fraseri var. microphylla J.Gay (taxonomic synonym)
Restiaria fraseri (Gay) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Kubiak_2009 (2), Lawson_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), RBGK_2014 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 59 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Kubiak_2009]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.06 mg (6.06-6.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 1.62 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.37 mg/mm3 (0.37-0.37 mg/mm3) [sources: Lawson_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7 m (6-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	13	18	N. 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/.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Kubiak_2009	2	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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/.
Lawson_2015	1	1	J. R. Lawson, K. A. Fryirs, and M. R. Leishman. “Data from: Hydrological conditions explain wood density in riparian plants of south-eastern Australia”. Dryad Digital Repository (2015). doi: 10.5061/dryad.72h45.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.