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Brachychiton paradoxus

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Brachychiton paradoxus Schott & Endl.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachychiton paradoxum Schott & Endl. (orthographic variant)
  • Brachychiton paradoxus Schott & Endl. subsp. paradoxus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachychiton ramiflorum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachychiton ramiflorus R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachychiton sp. (Mornington Island F.P.Woolston AQ81345) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clompanus paradoxa (Schott & Endl.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sterculia paradoxa (Schott & Endl.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sterculia paradoxa (Schott & Endl.) Druce (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sterculia paradoxa (Schott & Endl.) Druce var. paradoxa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sterculia paradoxa var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sterculia ramiflora (R.Br.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (11), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (9), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (30), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Rosell_2014 (8), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 96 records in 17 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • 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_length (numerical): 87.5 mm (65-115 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 36.25 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 158.75 mm (65-300 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 158.75 mm (70-250 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 12.1 cm (3.2-21 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); ovate (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [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): shrub (3); tree (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 10.17 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.53 mg/mm3) [sources: Rosell_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.5 m (3-15 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20232230D. 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/.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_201179R. 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.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
Clarke_201533P. 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_202233D. 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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Munroe_201911S. 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_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.