Cryptostegia madagascariensis
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Family Apocynaceae
Taxonomy: Cryptostegia madagascariensis Bojer ex Decne.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cryptostegia glaberrima Hochr. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cryptostegia madagascariensis Bojer ex Decne. var. madagascariensis (nomenclatural synonym)
- Cryptostegia madagascariensis var. glaberrima (Hochr.) Marohasy & P.I.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (29), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 71 records in 9 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (75-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): follicle (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (40-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 46.17 mm (25-52 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.05 cm (0.4-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (5); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): obtuse (1); truncate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (4); climber_woody (1); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 12 | 29 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| NTH_2023 | 10 | 18 | D. 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_2022 | 2 | 6 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 6 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |