Androcalva loxophylla

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Androcalva loxophylla (F.Muell.) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)

Commerconia kempeana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Commerconia laxophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Commerconia loxophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Commersonia kempeana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Commersonia laxophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Commersonia loxophylla (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Restiaria kempeana (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Restiaria kempiana Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Restiaria laxophylla Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Restiaria loxophylla (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Ruelingia kempeana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Rulingia kempeana (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Rulingia loxophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Stephens_2021 (3), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 50 records in 14 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.2-1 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); oblong (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1); spreading (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nyynnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.72 m (0.2-2 m) [sources: SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	9	12	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
Stephens_2021	1	3	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
SAH_2014	1	1	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.