AusTraits

Hibiscus forsteri

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Hibiscus forsteri F.D.Wilson

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 60 records in 8 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_length (numerical): 26 mm (19-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (25-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (90-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 93.75 mm (45-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.65 cm (0.5-6.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16.5 mg (16.5-16.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231823Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.