Hibiscus verdcourtii

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Hibiscus verdcourtii Craven

Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibiscus trionum L. (pro parte misapplied)
Hibiscus trionum L. (misapplied)
Hibiscus trionum L. var. trionum (misapplied)
Hibiscus trionum var. vesicarius Hochr. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (23), Clarke_2015 (6), Crowley_2007 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (22), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (32), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (10), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 143 records in 19 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 (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12.33 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 66.33 mm (15-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 54.75 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.25 cm (1-5.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (2); oblong (1); ovate (2); spathulate (1); widely_ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (5); perennial (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.9 mg (3.9-3.9 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 2.6 mm (2.5-2.7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.71 m (0.1-1.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	16	32	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	17	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	16	22	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/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
WAH_2022_2	4	10	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	6	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.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_2022	2	2	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/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.