Hydrocotyle acutiloba

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle acutiloba (F.Muell.) N.A.Wakef.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hydrocotyle hirta var. acutiloba F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (9), Kew_2019_1 (1), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), NHNSW_2016 (3), NHNSW_2024 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (8), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 88 records in 15 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): resprouts (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.33 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.33 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3); schizocarp (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2892.5 mm2 (10-5775 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2016]
leaf_length (numerical): 33 mm (6-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 33 mm (6-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 28 cm (28-28 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 18.9 g/m2 (18.9-18.9 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (2); orbicular (2); reniform (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1); prostrate (2); stoloniferous (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2022; White_2020]
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): anemochory (1); barochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2016; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1); stolon (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.22 mg (0.06-0.3 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.2-0.2 m) [sources: Leishman_1995]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2024	13	15	N. 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/.
RBGV_2023	10	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	7	9	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. 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.
Leishman_1995	6	6	M. 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.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2016	3	3	National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
ATRP_2020	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	2	2	I. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Leishman_1993	1	1	M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.