AusTraits

Helicteres isora

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Helicteres isora L.

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

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (2), Kooyman_2011 (11), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (27), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 86 records in 14 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 40 mm (25-55 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.75 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 112.5 mm (30-190 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 63.33 mm (20-140 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.35 cm (0.7-2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; 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 (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.4 mg (1.4-1.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.67 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.83 m (2-3 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20232127D. 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_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011811R. 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_202244D. 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/.
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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. 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_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/.
Kew_2019_211Royal 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.