AusTraits

Clematis decipiens

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Clematis decipiens H.Eichler ex Jeanes

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Clematis occidentalis A.Cunn. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis sp. West MacDonnells (B.G.Thompson 3568) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis stenophylla C.Fraser ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (7), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (4), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 150 records in 21 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.55 mm (4-5.5 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.38 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 34.29 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.39 mm (1.5-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (4); linear (1); narrowly_ovate (2); oblanceolate (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (6); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (2); nnnnnyyyynnn (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; TMAG_2009; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.76 mg (2.68-5.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231215N. 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/.
NTH_20231115D. 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/.
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231114VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
TMAG_2009911Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Chen_201777Chen, 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Draper_202344J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.