AusTraits

Malvastrum chillagoense

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Malvastrum chillagoense Domin

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 30 records in 4 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); schizocarp (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (15-75 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Cooper_2013811W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.