Hibiscus splendens

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Hibiscus splendens C.Fraser ex Graham

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Abelmoschus splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) Walp. (nomenclatural synonym)
Malvaviscus splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) Regel (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (12), NSWFRD_2014 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 106 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 28.67 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 9232.59 mm2 (5871.22-15657.28 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 88.33 mm (30-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 56.25 mm (15-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 8.25 cm (3.5-13 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 77.64 g/m2 (59.52-122.8 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); orbicular (1); ovate (2); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); obtuse (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); lobed_shallow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.83 mg (11.48-14.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.67 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.3 mg/mm3 (0.28-0.33 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.85 m (1.5-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	17	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017	3	15	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. 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.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2023	9	12	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	7	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Wright_2000	5	5	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.