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Lasiopetalum glutinosum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Lasiopetalum glutinosum (Lindl.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Rhynchostemon glutinosum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rhynchostemon glutinosus (Lindl.) Steetz (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Thomasia glutinosa Lindl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 25 records in 11 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
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.66 mg (0.81-2.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.1-0.8 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Schmidt_199322S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.