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Geitonoplesium cymosum

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Family Hemerocallidaceae

Taxonomy: Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

Synonyms: 24 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Calcoa cymosa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eustrephus timorensis Ridl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium asperum A.Cunn. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br. f. cymosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br. subf. cymosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br. subsp. cymosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br. subvar. cymosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex R.Br. var. cymosum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum f. album Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum f. rubellum Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subf. asperum (Hook.) Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subf. glabrum Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subsp. angustifolium Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subsp. macrophyllum Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subvar. firmum Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum subvar. laxiflorum (Hallier f.) Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum var. paniculatum Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium cymosum var. timorense (Ridl.) Schlittler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Geitonoplesium montanum (R.Br.) Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Luzuriaga aspericaulis Hallier f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Luzuriaga cymosa R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Luzuriaga laxiflora Hallier f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Luzuriaga montana R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Luzuriaga timorensis (Ridl.) Hallier f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (16), ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2009 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Fonseca_2000 (9), Gallagher_2012 (3), Hughes_1992 (3), Jagdish_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (8), Kubiak_2009 (2), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (8), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2016 (1), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (25). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 85 traits from 215 records in 32 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (5) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 1.6 cm (1-2.2 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 14.25 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13.88 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 814.81 mm2 (150.25-2640.26 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (20-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.46 mm (2-35 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 19.5 mg (4-35 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.12 cm (0.05-0.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 30.6 g/m2 (18.83-45.79 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3); narrowly_lanceolate (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (5); climber_herbaceous (8); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (2) [sources: Clarke_2009; Gallagher_2012]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (5) [sources: Butler_2004; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2016; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.58 mg (3.78-25.66 mg) [sources: Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.42 mm (2.5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.33 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (2); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.33-0.5 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222125L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
RBGV_20231521VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231117N. 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/.
ABRS_20231116Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Fonseca_200059C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Kooyman_201168R. 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.
Leishman_199588M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
NHNSW_2014_266Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Clarke_200944P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Jagdish_202024A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Gallagher_201233R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_200922P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_202222N. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_202211Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
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.