Brachychiton diversifolius subsp. diversifolius

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Brachychiton diversifolius R.Br. subsp. diversifolius

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Brachychiton diversifolius R.Br. var. diversifolius (nomenclatural synonym)
Brachychiton diversifolius subsp. caudatus (Heward ex Benth.) A.Terracc. (taxonomic synonym)
Brachychiton diversifolius subsp. typicus A.Terracc. (taxonomic synonym)
Clompanus caudata (Heward ex Benth.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Sterculia caudata Heward ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Sterculia decipiens W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)

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

Brachychiton populneus (Schott & Endl.) R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 13 traits from 24 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: 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]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10.5 m (3-18 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.