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Asterotrichion discolor

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Asterotrichion discolor (Hook.) Melville

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asterotrichion sidoides Klotzsch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Blepharanthemum sidoides (Hook.) Klotzsch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plagianthus dampieri Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plagianthus discolor (Hook.) Asch. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Plagianthus lampenii Booth (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plagianthus petiolaris Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plagianthus sidoides Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sida discolor Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Jordan_2001 (6), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 30 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1963.5 mm2 (1963.5-1963.5 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 150 mm (150-150 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (55-55 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.66 mg (4.66-4.66 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9 m (4-14 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Jordan_200166G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
eFLOWER_Dun_202255L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.