Grewia asiatica

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Grewia asiatica L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 51 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (7-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (70-200 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 115.5 mm (58-173 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (1-2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.67 m (4-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	15	21	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/.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.