AusTraits

Androcalva perlaria

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Androcalva perlaria C.F.Wilkins

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Commersonia sp. Mount Groper (R.Cranfield & D.Kabay 9157) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Commersonia crispa Turcz. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (3), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (2), SPRAT_2025_2 (4), 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 12 traits from 21 records in 8 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 16 mm (7-25 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.92 mg (0.8-1.09 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SPRAT_2025_224F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_200933S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.