Hibiscus menzeliae
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Hibiscus menzeliae F.D.Wilson & Byrnes
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hibiscus menzelii F.D.Wilson & Byrnes (orthographic variant)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (22), Brock_1993 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 50 records in 9 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 95 mm (70-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 88.75 mm (45-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- petiole_length (numerical): 4.5 cm (3-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.62 mg (13.62-13.62 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.38 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 18 | 22 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Brock_1993 | 8 | 11 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |