AusTraits

Cassytha filiformis

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Family Lauraceae

Taxonomy: Cassytha filiformis L.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassytha cuscutiformis Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cassytha filiformis f. pycnantha Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cassytha filiformis var. pseudopubescens Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cassytha melantha R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, CoI, AR, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), ATRP_2020 (2), Brock_1993 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (5), Kew_2019_3 (3), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2016 (2), NHNSW_2022 (1), NHNSW_2023 (9), NSWFRD_2014 (4), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 103 records in 28 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
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.9 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.18 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.4 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3); nut (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; 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); green (3); orange (3); red (3); white (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5 mm2 (5-5 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1.65 mm (1-2.3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (7); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Lord_1997; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); parasitic (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997; NHNSW_2016]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nyyyynnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 38.22 mg (33.35-52.92 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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/.
NHNSW_202369N. 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/.
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.
Brock_199355J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
Kew_2019_115Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NSWFRD_201444B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_333Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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).
NHNSW_201622National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
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.
NHNSW_202211N. 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/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Stephens_202311R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
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.