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Diplocyclos palmatus

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Family Cucurbitaceae

Taxonomy: Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bryonia laciniosa L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bryonia palmata L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bryonopsis laciniosa (L.) Naudin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bryonopsis laciniosa var. erythrocarpa (F.Muell.) Naudin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bryonopsis laciniosa var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichosanthes muelleri Cogn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zehneria erythrocarpa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (22), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kooyman_2011 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (17), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2016 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), NTH_2014 (6), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (26), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 176 records in 24 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (2); white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 1.75 cm (1.5-2 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20.62 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20.62 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (3); white (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 14280 mm2 (14280-14280 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 84.38 mm (35-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 93.12 mm (40-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 4.18 cm (1.3-8 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_division (categorical): palmately_lobed (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (5); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • 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): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2016]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1); nnyynnnnnnnn (1); nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 15.82 mg (7.98-20 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.7 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231826D. 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_20231622Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231522N. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221721L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Metcalfe_20091717E. 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.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
NTH_201456Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Wright_200055I. 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.
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.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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_202233D. 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_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_201611National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.