Cassytha glabella f. glabella

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Family Lauraceae

Taxonomy: Cassytha glabella R.Br. f. glabella

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (5), Pickup_2021 (10), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (9), Tsakalos_2020 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 78 records in 12 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 (3) [sources: Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.92 mm (2.7-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.92 mm (2.7-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); orange (1); red (2); yellow (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): non-photosynthetic_plant (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (4); herb (1); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1); twining (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (2); parasitic (2); stem_parasitic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nyyyyyynnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2); transient (1) [sources: Pickup_2021; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	21	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Tsakalos_2020	11	11	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Pickup_2021	5	10	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
RBGV_2023	6	9	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	4	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	4	5	N. 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_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. 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/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.