AusTraits

Gossypium sturtianum var. sturtianum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Gossypium sturtianum J.H.Willis var. sturtianum

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cienfuegosia gossypioides (R.Br.) Hochr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gossypium australiense Tod. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gossypium gossypioides (R.Br.) C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gossypium sturtii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gossypium sturtii F.Muell. subsp. sturtii (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hibiscus gossypiodes Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hibiscus gossypioides (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sturtia gossypioides R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 40 records in 12 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 (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.66 mg (11.66-11.66 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.35 m (0.7-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_202378N. 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/.
Nano_201167C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Kew_2019_614Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.