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Calystegia soldanella

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Calystegia soldanella (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Calystegia reniformis R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calystegia soldanella var. australis Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus reniformis (R.Br.) Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus sepium var. saldonella F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus sepium var. soldanella (L.) C.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Convolvulus soldanella L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Hughes_1992 (1), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (16), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (11), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 112 records in 17 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 28.12 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (1-6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); reniform (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); herb (6) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (3); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; TMAG_2009; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 51.5 mg (45.53-59.34 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4.5-4.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231418VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231216N. 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/.
TMAG_2009911Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Kew_2019_117Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Jordan_200166G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.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/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Hughes_199211L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.