AusTraits

Sida rhombifolia

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Sida rhombifolia L.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Sida retusa L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Sida rhombifolia L. subsp. rhombifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sida rhombifolia L. var. rhombifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sida rhombifolia subsp. retusa (L.) Borss.Waalk. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), ChI, NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (8), Fonseca_2000 (9), Kubiak_2009 (7), Mesaglio_2022 (3), Metcalfe_2009 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (21), RBGV_2022 (1), RBGV_2023 (18), Soliveres_2012 (3), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 127 records in 21 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 (2); resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; Metcalfe_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (4.5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.17 mm (4.5-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3); schizocarp (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 543.17 mm2 (63.4-1440 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50.83 mm (15-90 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.02 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 10.5 mg (8-13 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 116.29 g/m2 (101.01-131.58 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); obovate (3); ovate (3); rhomboidal (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (3); rounded (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed_serrate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (4); subshrub (3); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; Soliveres_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): butterfly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Soliveres_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Soliveres_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (2); nynnnnnnnnnn (1); yyynnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Mesaglio_2022]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.86 mg (0.86-0.86 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (1-1.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231521D. 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/.
RBGV_20231318VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231216N. 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/.
Metcalfe_20091515E. 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.
Fonseca_200059C. 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.
Cooper_201378W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kubiak_200967P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Mesaglio_202213T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Soliveres_201233S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202222N. 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/.
NSWFRD_201422B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NTH_202222D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGV_202211VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.