Melochia corchorifolia

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Melochia corchorifolia L.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melochia concatenata L. (taxonomic synonym)
Riedlea corchorifolia (L.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Riedleia corchorifolia DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Riedleya corchorifolia Hohen. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (9), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (24), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 84 records in 14 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.15 mm (3-3.3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.7-3.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 66 mm (12-120 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 29.5 mm (6-53 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (2.4-5.6 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.33 mg (2.24-4.05 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.8 mm (1.6-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.5-1.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.35 m (0.4-2 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	22	26	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023	17	24	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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2022	3	3	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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://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.