AusTraits

Triumfetta pilosa

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Triumfetta pilosa Roth

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Corchorus rothii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Triumfetta nigricans F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Triumfetta suffruticosa Blume (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 19 records in 4 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_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • 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 (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.