Amyema plicatula
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Family Loranthaceae
Taxonomy: Amyema plicatula (K.Krause) Danser
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Amyema scandens subsp. plicatula (K.Krause) Barlow (nomenclatural synonym)
- Amyema scandens subsp. plicatulum Barlow (nomenclatural synonym)
- Loranthus plicatulus K.Krause (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (3), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (13), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 32 records in 8 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (50-200 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (25-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (2); terrestrial (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; SPRAT_2025_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- parasitic (categorical): stem_parasitic (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022; SPRAT_2025_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2023 | 9 | 13 | N. 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/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 5 | 5 | N. 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/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 3 | 3 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| ATRP_2020 | 2 | 2 | F. 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. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 2 | 2 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |