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Hibiscus panduriformis

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Hibiscus panduriformis Burm.f.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hibiscus panduraeformis Burm.f. (orthographic variant)
  • Hibiscus panduriformis Burm.f. var. panduriformis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hibiscus tubulosus Cav. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (25), Brock_1993 (12), Crowley_2007 (1), Kew_2019_1 (11), Kew_2019_6 (19), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), Nano_2011 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 109 records in 13 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 80.67 mm (17-186 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 62.83 mm (17-151 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 7.62 cm (2-18 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.34 mg (4.23-5.97 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (2); reniform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231925Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231925D. 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/.
Kew_2019_6119Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kew_2019_1111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_202222Australian 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.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201111C. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.