Lavatera trimestris
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Lavatera trimestris L.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lavatera mauritanica Durieu (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 14 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.
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.55 m (0.5-0.6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 4 | 4 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |