Gossypium cunninghamii

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Gossypium cunninghamii Tod.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cienfuegosia benthamii Hochr. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cienfuegosia punctata Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Fugosia punctata A.Cunn. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Hibiscus punctatus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Notoxylinon punctatum Lewton (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (28), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 42 records in 6 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): 19 mm (17-21 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (12-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (12-13 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]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 72 mm (41-103 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 49 mm (21-77 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.3-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): subshrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.95 mm (3.9-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	20	28	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_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.