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Adenia heterophylla subsp. australis

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Family Passifloraceae

Taxonomy: Adenia heterophylla subsp. australis (R.Br. ex DC.) W.J.de Wilde

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Adenia australis (R.Br. ex DC.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Adenia populifolia (Blume) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Modecca australis R.Br. ex DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Modecca populifolia Blume (taxonomic synonym)
  • Modica australis Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), ATRP_2020 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (12), NTH_2014 (16), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 61 records in 11 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 55 mm (40-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 43.62 mm (3.5-110 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40.12 mm (2.5-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.17 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid_flattened (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15.5 m (1-30 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231317Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20141116Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Kooyman_2011912R. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.