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Adenia heterophylla

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Family Passifloraceae

Taxonomy: Adenia heterophylla (Blume) Koord.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Modecca heterophylla Blume (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 (19), Clarke_2015 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (24), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 94 records in 13 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 70 mm (20-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 29.58 mm (17.5-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 136.25 mm (35-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 103.75 mm (20-190 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (1-7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (2); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cordate (2); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.25 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); orbicular (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15.5 m (1-30 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231724D. 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/.
ABRS_20231519Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221618L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_202244D. 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_200644A. 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.
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/.
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.
Clarke_201511P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.