Dendrophthoe acacioides
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Family Loranthaceae
Taxonomy: Dendrophthoe acacioides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Tiegh.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Amyema acacioides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Danser (nomenclatural synonym)
- Amyema acacioides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Danser var. acacioides (nomenclatural synonym)
- Loranthus acacioides A.Cunn. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (23). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 60 records in 10 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
- flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): red (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 85 mm (30-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (2-28 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.5-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); stem_parasitic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 18 | 23 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 14 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| ABRS_2022 | 5 | 5 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Chen_2017 | 4 | 4 | Chen, 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. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| ABRS_1981 | 2 | 2 | B. 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |