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Malva preissiana

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Malva preissiana Miq.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lavatera australis Colla (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lavatera plebeia var. tomentosa Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lavatera plebeja var. tomentosa Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Malva preissiana subsp. Coastal (V.Stajsic 5182) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lavatera hispida Desf. (doubtful misapplied)
  • Lavatera plebeia Sims (pro parte misapplied)
  • Lavatera plebeja var. eremaea J.M.Black (pro parte misapplied)
  • Malva behriana Schltdl. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Roberts_2006 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (53). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 127 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2); schizocarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (20-200 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 67.5 mm (25-110 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (1-1.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (2); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8); shrub (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (4); open (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (4) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1); zoochory (4) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (3); mammals_domestic (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (2); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18.92 mg (2.35-34 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Roberts_2006]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201953M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231418VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231215N. 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/.
Kew_2019_616Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NSWFRD_201433B. 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.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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_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.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
NTH_202311D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Roberts_200611B. Roberts. “Unpublished data: Seed traits, La Trobe University”. 2006.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.