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Ipomoea eriocarpa

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea eriocarpa R.Br.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Convolvulus eriocarpus (R.Br.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ipomoea sessiliflora Roth (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_1 (6), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kew_2019_6 (8), Kooyman_2011 (12), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 75 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 56.75 mm (25-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 19.25 mm (6-32 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.3-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1); triangular (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); auriculate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (4); herb (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • 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: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.41 mg (7.36-10 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231217D. 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/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Kew_2019_618Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_116Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Kew_2019_211Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
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.
Wright_200011I. 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.