AusTraits

Billardiera viridiflora

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Billardiera viridiflora L.W.Cayzer & D.L.Jones

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Kirkpatrick_2020 (4), McGlone_2015 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 33 records in 6 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): andromonoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 37 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.33 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Kirkpatrick_202044J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
ABRS_202233Australian 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.