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Ampelocissus acetosa

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Family Vitaceae

Taxonomy: Ampelocissus acetosa (F.Muell.) Planch.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cayratia acetosa (F.Muell.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cissus acetosa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vitis acetosa (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (9), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2022 (2), Nano_2011 (2), Schmidt_2003 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 91 records in 14 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (6-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (5-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.15 g/g (0.15-0.15 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (5); climber_woody (2); herb (2); shrub (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.13 mg/g (11-26.3 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.2 {delta}[ppth] (-30.63--27.93 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 33.7 mg (33.7-33.7 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schmidt_20031239S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
Brock_199379J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Lord_199744J. 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.
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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_202222D. 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/.
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_2022_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. 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.
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.