Hydrocotyle pedicellosa

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle pedicellosa F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

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

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2024 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Smith_1996 (85), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 125 records in 9 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); partial_resprouting (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2); schizocarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 766.65 mm2 (72.6-1755 mm2) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_length (numerical): 45.35 mm (5-120 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 53.6 mm (10-120 mm) [sources: Smith_1996; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 32.44 mg (19.83-63 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
petiole_length (numerical): 19.5 cm (4-35 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 42.32 g/m2 (42.32-42.32 g/m2) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.11 g/g (0.1-0.11 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.36 g/g (7.81-9.03 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); orbicular (1); reniform (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_shallow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 22.5 deg (10-40 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2014_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Benwell_2024]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 25.52 mg/g (25.52-25.52 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.11 mg/g (2.11-2.11 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Smith_1996	17	85	B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
NHNSW_2024	13	17	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/.
Benwell_2024	4	8	A. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. 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.
Wright_2000	3	3	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.