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Clematis gentianoides

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Clematis gentianoides DC.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Clematis aristata subsp. gentianoides (DC.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis aristata subsp. procumbens Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis aristata subsp. tasmanica Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis aristata var. gentianoides (DC.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Clematis gentianoides DC. var. gentianoides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Clematis gentianoides var. normalis Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis gentianoides var. procumbens (Kuntze) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis gentianoides var. scandens H.Eichler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis gentianoides var. tasmanica (Kuntze) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Valvaria gentianoides (DC.) Ser. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (15), Chen_2017 (7), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 70 records in 14 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 (2); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.15 mm (1.8-2.5 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2827.43 mm2 (2827.43-2827.43 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.17 mm (7-40 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); subshrub (1); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; TMAG_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnyyy (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.97 mg (2.97-2.97 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.4-0.65 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian 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.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kirkpatrick_202055J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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.
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/.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.