AusTraits

Ipomoea aquatica

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea aquatica Forssk.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Convolvulus reptans L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ipomoea reptans (L.) Poir. ex Choisy (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (20), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 54 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 88.75 mm (45-130 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.5 mm (16-60 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5 cm (2-8 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_triangular (1); ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); hastate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1); herb (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 43.7 mg (43.5-44.09 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231420D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
WAH_2022_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.