AusTraits

Hibiscus sankowskyorum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Hibiscus sankowskyorum Craven

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hibiscus forsteri F.D.Wilson (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 31 records in 6 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 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): 155 mm (120-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 135 mm (90-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 6.75 cm (4-9.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (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 (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231620Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.