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Cassytha capillaris

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Family Lauraceae

Taxonomy: Cassytha capillaris Meisn.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassytha strigosa W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cassytha tenuis C.K.Allen (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassytha glabella R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), ATRP_2020 (2), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 83 records in 19 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): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.87 mm (3.7-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2.5-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (2.5-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2); nut (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (2); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (5); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
  • parasitic (categorical): parasitic (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NTH_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221818L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023711D. 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_2013810W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_202347Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
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.
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/.
ATRP_202022F. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023_212E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.