AusTraits

Actinidia chinensis

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Family Actinidiaceae

Taxonomy: Actinidia chinensis Planch.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (4), NHNSW_2024 (7), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 51 records in 6 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (40-80 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_20212736J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
NHNSW_202457N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202344Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_202311R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.