AusTraits

Commersonia breviseta

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Commersonia breviseta C.F.Wilkins & L.M.Copel.

Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Rulingia dasyphylla (Andrews) Sweet (pro parte misapplied)
  • Rulingia hermanniifolia (J.Gay ex Kunth) Endl. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Rulingia rugosa Steetz (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (6), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (21), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 84 records in 13 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 (7) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (7) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.95 mm (4.3-5.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.95 mm (4.3-5.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20.5 mm (8-35 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (1-7.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.1-0.6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Clarke_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (1-3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231421N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_20231318VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_201788D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Clarke_201536P. 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.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Yang_202324S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Clarke_200933P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.