Sida intricata

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Sida intricata F.Muell.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sida corrugata var. intricata (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Sida intricata F.Muell. var. intricata (nomenclatural synonym)
Sida intricata var. subspinosa Domin (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Sida sp. D (taxonomic synonym)
Sida sp. D (aff. intricata) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Fonseca_2000 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (10), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (17), SAH_2014 (5), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 92 records in 19 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: White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 3.12 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.12 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3); schizocarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 31.5 mm2 (31.5-31.5 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_length (numerical): 6 mm (1-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.89 mm (0.75-7 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 3 mg (3-3 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 104.17 g/m2 (104.17-104.17 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (2); orbicular (2); ovate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (3); obtuse (1); truncate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_crenate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (4); subshrub (2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); semi_woody (1); woody (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spindly (1); sprawling (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (1); zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.51 mg (1.51-1.51 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.41 m (0.13-0.75 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	12	17	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	8	10	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/.
SAH_2023	7	9	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Fonseca_2000	5	5	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
SAH_2014	3	5	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
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/.
Draper_2023	3	3	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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	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/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.