Thomasia sarotes

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Thomasia sarotes Turcz.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Thomasia sp. Merredin (M.B.Mills 11) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Thomasia sp. Salmon Gums (C.A.Gardner s.n. PERTH 02708639) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (12), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (6), Wenk_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 29 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.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [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 (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.25-1.1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Sjostrom_2006	4	12	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	6	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	3	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
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/.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.