AusTraits

Helicteres integrifolia

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Helicteres integrifolia (F.Muell.) Cowie

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Methorium integrifolium F.Muell. (basionym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Helicteres cana (Schott & Endl.) Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (26), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 36 records in 5 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 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): 66.5 mm (18-115 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 33.67 mm (8-75 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.3-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1); oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (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
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231726D. 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/.
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.