AusTraits

Ipomoea nervosa

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea nervosa (Burm.f.) J.R.I.Wood & Scotland

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Argyreia nervosa (Burm.f.) Bojer (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Argyreia speciosa (L.f.) Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus nervosus Burm.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Convolvulus speciosus L.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 33 records in 6 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): 17.5 mm (17-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (17-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221213L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.