AusTraits

Bombax ceiba var. leiocarpum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Bombax ceiba var. leiocarpum A.Robyns

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kooyman_2011 (9), NTH_2014 (17), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 34 records in 6 datasets.

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

leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 182.5 mm (60-230 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 71.25 mm (35-85 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.25 mm (5-5.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 19.17 m (5-25 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20141217Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Kooyman_201189R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.