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Lagunaria patersonia

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G.Don

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hibiscus patersoni Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hibiscus patersonia Andrews (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hibiscus patersonii R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hibiscus patersonius Andrews (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagunaea patersonia Sims (orthographic variant)
  • Lagunaea patersonii P.S.Green (orthographic variant)
  • Lagunaea squamea Vent. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagunaria patersoni Benth. (orthographic variant)
  • Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G.Don subsp. patersonia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G.Don var. patersonia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagunaria patersonii G.Don (orthographic variant)
  • Lagunaria patersonii var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lagunaria patersonius Craven, C.H.Mill. & R.G.White (orthographic variant)
  • Lagunaria patersonius Craven, C.H.Mill. & R.G.White subsp. patersonius (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagunea patersonia Pers. (orthographic variant)
  • Solandra squamea Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW, LHI, NI, Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (22), SAH_2014 (5), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 129 records in 18 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20.62 mm (2-40 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (2-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 13.75 mm (2-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 48.25 mm (4-110 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32 mm (13-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (9) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (7) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 49.6 mg (49.6-49.6 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.33 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 18.86 m (12-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231622VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221317L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231216N. 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/.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
SAH_20231012S. 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/.
WAH_2022_236Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_201435J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
SAH_202244S. 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_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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.