Thespesia populnea
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Family Malvaceae
Taxonomy: Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Correa
Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bupariti populnea (L.) Rothm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Hibiscus baccifer G.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
- Hibiscus bacciferus G.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
- Hibiscus blumei Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Hibiscus populneus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Thespesia banalo Blanco (taxonomic synonym)
- Thespesia howii S.Y.Hu (taxonomic synonym)
- Thespesia macrophylla Blume (taxonomic synonym)
- Thespesia populnea var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): CoI, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Kew_2019_1 (8), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (27). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 72 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.
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 26.5 mm (20-33 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 100 mm (65-135 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; 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): yynnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 125.57 mg (28.6-159.44 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 22 | 27 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 7 | 10 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 8 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wright_2000 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_3 | 4 | 4 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Kew_2019_4 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |