AusTraits

Grewia retusifolia

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Grewia retusifolia Kurz

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Grewia polygama Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (11), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (15), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (11), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 94 records in 17 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): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1455 mm2 (1455-1455 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 71 mm (30-145 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 45.33 mm (18-68 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 144.87 g/m2 (123.55-160.15 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; Wright_2008]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnnyy (1); yyynnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.02 mg/g (7.6-13.26 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.14 mg/g (0.14-0.14 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.1 {delta}[ppth] (-30.27--29.93 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 57.15 mg (46.7-67.61 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.23 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Dong_2017815N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
NTH_2014911Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Wright_200888I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
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/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.