Calotropis gigantea

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Calotropis gigantea (L.) W.T.Aiton

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asclepias gigantea L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Bebawi_2015 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 45 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 85 mm (70-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (100-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 80 mm (80-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.04 cm (0.02-0.07 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (2); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Bebawi_2015]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 0.68 a (0.68-0.68 a) [sources: Bebawi_2015]

seed morphology

seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	12	14	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	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Bebawi_2015	2	2	F. F. Bebawi, S. D. Campbell, and R. J. Mayer. “Seed bank longevity and age to reproductive maturity of Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton in the dry tropics of northern Queensland”. The Rangeland Journal 37.3 (2015), p. 239. ISSN: 1036-9872. doi: 10.1071/rj14130.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.