Malvastrum coromandelianum

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Malva coromandeliana L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Malva tricuspidata R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke subsp. coromandelianum (nomenclatural synonym)
Malvastrum tricuspidatum A.Gray (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW, LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (9), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kew_2019_6 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (31), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 106 records in 16 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.4 mm (2-2.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.34 mm (1.7-7.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5.34 mm (1.7-7.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); mericarp (2); schizocarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 37 mm (13-65 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 24.75 mm (9-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.48 cm (0.4-2.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.87 mg (1.17-3.14 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.8-2.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.9 mm (1.6-2.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.78 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	19	31	D. 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/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	11	16	N. 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_1	1	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	6	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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_2022	4	4	D. 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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.