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Hedera helix

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Hedera helix L.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hedera helix L. subsp. helix (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2024 (15), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (22), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (1), WAH_2023_1 (1), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 78 records in 13 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 (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Kubiak_2009; Yang_2023]
flower morphology
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); blue (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 66.67 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 6.5 cm (2-11 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (2); shrub (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2022_1]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 15 m (10-20 m) [sources: NHNSW_2024; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231122VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_20212122J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
NHNSW_20241115N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kubiak_200911P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
WAH_2022_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_111Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.