AusTraits

Androcalva viscidula

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Androcalva viscidula (Guymer) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Commersonia sp. (Mt Tinbeerwah G.P.Guymer 1786) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Commersonia sp. 1 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Commersonia viscidula Guymer (basionym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (20), RBGK_2014 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 46 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.75 mm (7-12.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 9.75 mm (7-12.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2272.36 mm2 (1513.1-4009.92 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 58.5 mm (12-105 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 31.75 mm (8.5-55 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.7 cm (0.25-1.15 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 101.55 g/m2 (95.47-107.64 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); oblique (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.16 mg (5.16-5.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; RBGK_2014]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.38-0.42 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.25 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231420N. 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/.
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.