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Clematis glycinoides

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Clematis glycinoides DC.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Clematis aristata subsp. glycinoides (DC.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Clematis glycinoides DC. var. glycinoides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Clematis glycinoides var. dentata Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis glycinoides var. floribunda Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis glycinoides var. normalis Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), ANBG_2019 (5), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (7), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (4), Fonseca_2000 (9), Gallagher_2012 (3), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (11), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (7), McGlone_2015 (6), Mesaglio_2022 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2016 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (12), NSWFRD_2014 (15), Pickup_2021 (15), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 63 traits from 191 records in 31 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): fire_killed (2); partial_resprouting (3); resprouts (4) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (4); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 596.33 mm2 (90-1352.6 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (15-120 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 36.05 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 105 mg (24-186 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 98.26 g/m2 (68.03-136.99 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (7); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (6); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Clarke_2009; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (7) [sources: Butler_2004; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2016; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (4) [sources: Butler_2004; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnynnn (1); nnnnnnnyyynn (2); nnnnnnnyyyyn (6) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Hughes_1992; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (8) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3); transient (1) [sources: Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3 mg (1.87-3.37 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.42 mm (2.35-5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.64 mm (0.93-3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
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.
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014915B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Pickup_2021515M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
NHNSW_20231012N. 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/.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
Fonseca_200059C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
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.
Leishman_199577M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Wright_200077I. 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.
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.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202355VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. 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.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Clarke_201534P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
Clarke_200923P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Gallagher_201233R. 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.
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_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mesaglio_202212T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
NHNSW_201612National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.