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Bonamia media

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Bonamia media (R.Br.) Hallier f.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bonamia linearis subvar. villosa (Benth.) Hallier f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bonamia linearis var. media (R.Br.) Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bonamia media (R.Br.) Hallier f. var. media (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bonamia media var. emarginata Myint & D.B.Ward (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bonamia media var. villosa (Benth.) Myint (taxonomic synonym)
  • Breweria media R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Breweria media R.Br. var. media (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Breweria media var. parviflora Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Breweria media var. villosa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Seddera media Beard (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bonamia linearis (R.Br.) Hallier f. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (17), NTH_2022 (7), NTH_2023 (29), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 115 records in 15 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): blue_purple (2); pink (1); white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.42 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (2-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (7-26 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.33 mm (4-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); herb (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (7) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (5); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • parasitic (categorical): parasitic (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.67 mg (3.23-6.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231329D. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222124L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231317N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_202247D. 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/.
WAH_2022_236Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200056I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
NHNSW_202255N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_614Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wenk_202224E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.