Helicteres tenuipila

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Helicteres tenuipila Cowie

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Helicteres D27003 Litchfield (taxonomic synonym)
Helicteres sp. Litchfield (D.M.J.S.Bowman 185) Cowie (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (27), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 50 records in 11 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): 16 mm (12-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 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): 70 mm (45-95 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.4-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): 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

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); subshrub (2) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.24 mg (8.24-8.24 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (1.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1); fusiform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	20	27	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/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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_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.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. 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.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.