Brachychiton diversifolius

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Brachychiton diversifolius R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Brachychiton diversifolium R.Br. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (11), Clarke_2015 (3), Dong_2017 (8), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), Lawes_2012 (1), Lord_1997 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (26), Rice_1991 (1), Schmidt_2003 (7), Schulze_1998 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 106 records in 22 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Schmidt_2003]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); follicle (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 112.5 mm (45-210 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 68 mm (23-105 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 5.6 cm (2.2-9 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 110.82 g/m2 (99.39-122.25 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_1998]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.16-0.24 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cordate (1); cuneate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (9) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Schulze_1998]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.49 mg/g (13.56-15.43 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_1998]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.98 {delta}[ppth] (-28.37--25.6 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_1998]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 97.68 mg (97.68-97.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.39 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.39 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 13.12 m (3-18 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	20	26	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993	9	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011	7	9	R. 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.
Wright_2000	9	9	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Dong_2017	8	8	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Schulze_1998	8	8	E. -. Schulze, R. J. Williams, G. D. Farquhar, W. Schulze, J. Langridge, J. M. Miller, and B. H. Walker. “Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25.4 (1998), pp. 413-425. doi: 10.1071/PP97113.
Schmidt_2003	6	7	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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/.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Lord_1997	2	2	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lawes_2012	1	1	M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.