Sterculia shillinglawii
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Sterculia shillinglawii F.Muell.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lemmens_1994 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 42 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.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 65 mm (40-90 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 19 mm (10-28 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 65 mm (45-85 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (11-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.32 mg/mm3 (0.24-0.46 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Lemmens_1994; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 30 m (30-30 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 10 | 13 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x. |
| Gross_2005 | 4 | 4 | C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Zanne_2009 | 1 | 2 | A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234. |
| Ilic_2000 | 1 | 1 | J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000. |
| Lemmens_1994 | 1 | 1 | R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |
| Wright_2000 | 1 | 1 | I. 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. |