Cissus penninervis

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Family Vitaceae

Taxonomy: Cissus penninervis (F.Muell.) Planch.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cissus arthroclada Lauterb. (taxonomic synonym)
Cissus penninerviis Planch. (orthographic variant)
Nothocissus penninervis (F.Muell.) Latiff (nomenclatural synonym)
Vitis penninervis F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Apgaua_2017 (12), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 68 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 11 mm (8-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3600 mm2 (3600-3600 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Apgaua_2017; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): tendrils (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.21 {delta}[ppth] (-31.21--31.21 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 88 mg (66-110 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.5 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Metcalfe_2009]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 9.2 {count}/mm2 (9.2-9.2 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 167.88 um (167.88-167.88 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.26 mm2/mm2 (0.26-0.26 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. 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.
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.
Gallagher_2012	3	3	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.