Cochlospermum arafuricum

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Family Bixaceae

Taxonomy: Cochlospermum arafuricum Cowie & R.A.Kerrigan

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cochlospermum sp. Arnhem Land (I.D.Cowie 5916) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 42 records in 7 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 76.5 mm (64-89 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 54.5 mm (51-58 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 54.5 mm (51-58 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 99.5 mm (50-149 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 125.5 mm (73-178 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 12.5 cm (12.5-12.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); oblate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (6.5-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 5.75 mm (5.5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 9 m (9-9 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	17	25	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/.
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.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
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.