Thunbergia grandiflora
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Family Acanthaceae
Taxonomy: Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Thunbergia grandiflora var. laurifolia (Lindl.) Benoist (taxonomic synonym)
- Thunbergia harrisii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
- Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb. x Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (4), Cooper_2013 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 15 records in 5 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyynnnnn (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATRP_2020 | 3 | 4 | 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 2 | 4 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |