AusTraits

Causonis japonica

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Family Vitaceae

Taxonomy: Causonis japonica (Thunb.) Raf.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cayratia japonica (Thunb.) Gagnep. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cayratia japonica var. mollis (Wall. ex M.A.Lawson) Momiy. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cayratia mollis (Wall. ex M.A.Lawson) C.Y.Wu (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cissus japonica (Thunb.) Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cissus japonica var. mollis (Wall. ex M.A.Lawson) Planch. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Columella japonica (Thunb.) Merr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vitis japonica Thunb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vitis mollis Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitis mollis Wall. ex M.A.Lawson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitis obovata M.A.Lawson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitis tenuifolia Wight & Arn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): ChI, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 38 records in 7 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): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (4-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (30-125 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.