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Triumfetta micracantha

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Triumfetta micracantha F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Triumfetta micracantha F.Muell. var. micracantha (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Triumfetta micracantha var. genuina Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 64 records in 16 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): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 39.25 mm (8-75 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 24.75 mm (5-45 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); subshrub (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 62.07 mg (62.07-62.07 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.98 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_202222D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.