Thomasia brachystachys

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Thomasia brachystachys Turcz.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Thomasia sp. Toolbrunup (G.J.Keighery 9895) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 28 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); open (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.68 m (0.7-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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.
WAH_2022_2	4	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	2	2	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.