Androcalva luteiflora

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Androcalva luteiflora (E.Pritz.) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ruelingia luteiflora E.Pritz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Rulingia luteiflora E.Pritz. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rulingia rotundifolia Turcz. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), 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 25 traits from 40 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 16 mm (12-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 16 mm (12-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 16 mm (12-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15.5 mm (6-25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (4-16 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.2-0.6 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_shallow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.94 mg (4.42-5.45 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.15 mm (2.8-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.8 m (0.6-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	18	25	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/.
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/.
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/.
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.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. 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.