Seringia exastia
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Seringia exastia (C.F.Wilkins) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock
Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Keraudrenia exastia C.F.Wilkins (nomenclatural synonym)
- Keraudrenia sp. 1 (Broome; B.J.Carter 501) (taxonomic synonym)
- Keraudrenia sp. B (taxonomic synonym)
- Keraudrenia sp. Broome (B.J.Carter 501) (taxonomic synonym)
- Keraudrenia sp. Broome (B.J.Carter 501) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
- Keraudrenia sp. North West (J.Z.Weber 6475) C.F.Wilkins (taxonomic synonym)
- Keraudrenia velutina subsp. elliptica C.F.Wilkins (taxonomic synonym)
- Seringia elliptica C.F.Wilkins (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Keraudrenia integrifolia Steud. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (9), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), SPRAT_2025_2 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 57 records in 11 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
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- flower_diameter (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.7-0.8 cm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 9.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): ants (2); passive (1); vertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021; WAH_1998]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.93 m (0.7-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 8 | 11 | 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/. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 9 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 5 | 8 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 8 | 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 | 4 | 7 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 4 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |