Seringia arborescens

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Seringia arborescens (W.T.Aiton) Druce

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gaya platyphylla Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
Lasiopetalum arborescens W.T.Aiton (nomenclatural synonym)
Seringea platyphylla F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Seringia platyphylla J.Gay (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (25). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 56 records in 10 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (2); white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.33 mg (1.33-1.33 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	25	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	10	13	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/.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.