Aristolochia holtzei

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Family Aristolochiaceae

Taxonomy: Aristolochia holtzei F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aristolochia sp. (Wolfram Camp N Qld) (taxonomic synonym)
Aristolochia thozetii var. angustissima Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (22), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (2), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 73 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); utricle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.5-0.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; NTH_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (2); reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	17	22	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	12	15	D. 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/.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
ABRS_1981	4	4	B. 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/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. 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_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.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Lord_1997	2	2	J. 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.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
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.