Sida brachypoda

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Sida brachypoda F.Muell. ex A.E.Holland & S.T.Reynolds

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 31 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 25 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (5-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.2-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.75 m (0.75-0.75 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	13	19	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/.
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/.
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/.
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.