AusTraits

Hydrocotyle intertexta

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle intertexta R.Br. ex A.Rich.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hydrocotyle pilifera Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hydrocotyle pilifera Turcz. var. pilifera (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hydrocotyle pilifera var. glabrata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hydrocotyle hirta R.Br. ex A.Rich. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Dwyer_2017 (25), Gosper_2018 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (11), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (6), Wenk_2023 (3), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 124 records in 16 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): unknown (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.3 mm (1.3-1.3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); red (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (5-25 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1.5-2.5 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 19.66 g/m2 (18.56-20.41 g/m2) [sources: Dwyer_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obtriangular (1); reniform (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: 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 (10) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (10) [sources: Gosper_2018; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (8) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • 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): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.19 mg (0.19-0.19 mg) [sources: Dwyer_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Dwyer_2017325J. M. Dwyer and D. C. Laughlin. “Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic drivers of biodiversity: The importance of trait covariance in community assembly”. Ecology Letters 20.7 (2017), pp. 872-882. doi: 10.1111/ele.12781.
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231114VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_20231013S. 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/.
WAH_2022_2411Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Wenk_202226E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gosper_201844C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_214Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. 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.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Wenk_202313E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.