Distimake dissectus

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A.R.Simões & Staples

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Convolvulus dissectus Jacq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A.R.Simões & Staples var. dissectus (nomenclatural synonym)
Ipomoea dissecta (Jacq.) Pursh (nomenclatural synonym)
Ipomoea sinuata Ortega (taxonomic synonym)
Merremia disecta Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f. var. dissecta (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (1), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 34 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): 14.5 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 15.5 mm (13-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (50-110 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 80 mm (50-110 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (3); herb (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2023	7	10	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/.
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	2	2	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
WAH_2022_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.