Pollia macrophylla

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Family Commelinaceae

Taxonomy: Pollia macrophylla (R.Br.) Benth.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aclisia macrophylla (R.Br.) G.Brückn. (nomenclatural synonym)
Aneilema macrophylla R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Aneilema macrophyllum R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Commelina macrophylla (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pollia macrophylla (R.Br.) Benth. var. macrophylla (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 44 records in 8 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 7200 mm2 (7200-7200 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.58 mg (0.54-0.62 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.