Cassytha nodiflora
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Family Lauraceae
Taxonomy: Cassytha nodiflora Meisn.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), Chen_2017 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (11), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 41 records in 11 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): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); red (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): non-photosynthetic_plant (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- parasitic (categorical): parasitic (2); stem_parasitic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
whole plant morphology
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| ABRS_2023 | 4 | 7 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Chen_2017 | 5 | 5 | Chen, 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_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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ABRS_1981 | 1 | 1 | 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/. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. 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_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |