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Aristolochia peninsulensis

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Family Aristolochiaceae

Taxonomy: Aristolochia peninsulensis (Mich.J.Parsons) Buchwalder & Wanke

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aristolochia sp. 'Iron Range' (G. & N.Sankowsky 382) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. (Iron Range G.Sankowsky+ 382) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. (Iron Range GS 382) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. (Iron Range rainforest) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. (Lamond Hill G.Sankowsky+ 382) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aristolochia sp. 2 (Iron Range; G. & N.Sankowsky 382) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pararistolochia peninsularis W.E.Cooper (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pararistolochia peninsulensis Mich.J.Parsons (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (26), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 64 records in 10 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): 45 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 26 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (1); utricle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 151.25 mm (90-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 56.25 mm (20-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_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_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231726Australian 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_201168R. 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.
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_198133B. 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_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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.