Franciscodendron laurifolium

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Franciscodendron laurifolium (F.Muell.) B.Hyland & Steenis

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Clompanus laurifolia (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Sterculia laurifolia F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Grubb_2008 (3), Ilic_2000 (4), Kanowski_2000 (69), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (120), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (60), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 75 traits from 321 records in 16 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (50-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2); samara (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 6070.5 mm2 (2457.88-10110.84 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 165 mm (70-260 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 72.5 mm (40-105 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 522.3 mg (115.78-979.55 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 90.94 g/m2 (47.11-134.23 g/m2) [sources: Grubb_2008; Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017; Wells_2012; Wills_2018]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.29-0.46 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.9 g/g (1.9-1.9 g/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.41 mg/g (11.75-16.74 mg/g) [sources: Grubb_2008; Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.27 mg/g (0.68-2.8 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 142.25 mg (89-160 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 14.25 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.38 mg/mm3 (0.33-0.44 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	23	120	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Kanowski_2000	24	69	J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
Wills_2018	15	60	J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	15	15	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_2017	6	6	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Ilic_2000	1	4	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.
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.
Grubb_1996	3	3	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Grubb_2008	3	3	P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.