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Camonea umbellata

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Camonea umbellata (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Convolvulus cymosus Desr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus umbellatus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ipomaea cymosa Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ipomoea cymosa (Desr.) Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f. subsp. umbellata (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 46 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): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); nnnnnynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 44.04 mg (35-51.07 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231216D. 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/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2022_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.