Hydrocotyle plebeya
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Family Araliaceae
Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle plebeya R.Br. ex A.Rich.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hydrocotyle plebeia Spreng. (orthographic variant)
- Hydrocotyle plebeja J.W.Green (orthographic variant)
Distribution (APC): WA, SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 56 records in 8 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 20.75 mm (5-51 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 33.75 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); orbicular (1); reniform (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- 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): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.27 m (0.08-0.4 m) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- 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. |
| SAH_2023 | 10 | 13 | 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/. |
| Wheeler_2002 | 8 | 10 | J. 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| SAH_2022 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| 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. |
| 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. |