AusTraits

Triumfetta rhomboidea

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Family Malvaceae

Taxonomy: Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Triumfetta bartramia L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Triumfetta bartramia L. var. bartramia (taxonomic synonym)
  • Triumfetta velutina Vahl (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Metcalfe_2009 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (4), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 93 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.62 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.05 mm (4.2-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.6 mm (4.2-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 8580 mm2 (8580-8580 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.5 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 45.58 mm (5-104 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.85 cm (0.2-8.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (5); subshrub (1); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); semi_woody (1); woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); epizoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997; Metcalfe_2009]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1); nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.56 mg (0.95-12.43 mg) [sources: Lord_1997; Metcalfe_2009; RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231521D. 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/.
Metcalfe_20091515E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
NHNSW_2023814N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NSWFRD_201444B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
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).
NHNSW_202222N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
RBGK_201412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.