Hydrocotyle comocarpa
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Family Araliaceae
Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle comocarpa F.Muell.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hydrocotyle comosa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): SA, Vic, Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (5), Draper_2023 (3), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), SAH_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 68 records in 11 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) [sources: White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (1-5 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (2); orbicular (2); reniform (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_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 (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.09 m (0.03-0.15 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
- 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. |
| RBGV_2023 | 9 | 12 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| SAH_2023 | 9 | 12 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| Cheal_2017 | 5 | 5 | D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010. |
| 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/. |
| SAH_2022 | 4 | 4 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| 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. |
| SAH_2014 | 1 | 2 | J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |