AusTraits

Grewia orbifolia

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Grewia orbifolia F.Muell. ex Benth.

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 36 records in 7 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8.45 mm (6.5-10.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 34 mm (10-58 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37 mm (10-64 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.1-1.2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • 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
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231318D. 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/.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
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.
NTH_202233D. 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_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.