AusTraits

Aristolochia acuminata

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Aristolochiaceae

Taxonomy: Aristolochia acuminata Lam.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aristolochia indica var. magna F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. A Kimberley Flora (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia tagala Cham. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (23), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 68 records in 12 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): 43 mm (30-62 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 27.5 mm (25-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); utricle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 121.25 mm (35-230 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 98.25 mm (33-165 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (2-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); triangular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnyy (2); yyyyyynnnyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.81 mg (4.81-4.81 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.38 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); reniform (1); winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231723Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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_198145B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.