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Clematis pickeringii

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Clematis pickeringii A.Gray

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Clematis aristata subsp. pickeringii (A.Gray) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Clematis aristata var. gillivrayana Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis aristata var. glycinoides F.Muell. ex Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis glycinoides var. submutica Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis queenslandica W.T.Wang (taxonomic synonym)
  • Clematis rhodocarpoides W.T.Wang (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Clematis glycinoides DC. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (7), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (15), NHNSW_2016 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (12), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 143 records in 23 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 (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; Nano_2011; White_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.38 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.4 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (6); nut (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5250 mm2 (5250-5250 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 61.25 mm (15-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 44.38 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (3); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1); insect (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2016; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); nnnyyyyyyyyn (1); nynnnnnnnnnn (1); yynyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.38 mg (1.1-1.87 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 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.
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.
Metcalfe_20091515E. 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.
NTH_20231013D. 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/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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_2011811R. 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.
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.
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.
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/.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
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_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-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.
NHNSW_201611National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.