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Asparagus plumosus

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Asparagus plumosus Baker

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asparagus plumosus var. nanus Maiden (taxonomic synonym)
  • Protasparagus plumosus (Baker) Oberm. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop (misapplied)
  • Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2024 (10), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (20), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 98 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.38 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (3); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): acicular (2); linear (2); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2); rhizomatous (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2022_2]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnynnnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.38 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4 m (2-5 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231420Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231420VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2024810N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_266Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202355S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_202222VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
SAH_201411J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.