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Ipomoea pes-caprae

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Convolvulus maritimus Lam. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus pes-caprae L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ipomaea pes-caprae F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Ipomoea maritima (Lam.) R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plesiagopus rotundifolia Raf. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, CoI, ChI, AR, NT, Qld, CSI, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (9), Cooper_2013 (12), Kew_2019_1 (17), Kew_2019_3 (2), Kew_2019_6 (9), Kocacinar_2003 (6), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 101 records in 15 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15.75 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15.75 mm (10-20 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): 76.67 mm (30-120 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 74.17 mm (30-120 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (0.5-6.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); orbicular (2); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): obtuse (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Kocacinar_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); herb (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); creeping (1); prostrate (2); sprawling (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 102.66 mg (69.96-200.36 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231318D. 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/.
Kew_2019_1117Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_199379J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kew_2019_619Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kocacinar_200366F. Kocacinar and R. F. Sage. “Photosynthetic pathway alters xylem structure and hydraulic function in herbaceous plants”. Plant, Cell & Environment 26.12 (2003), pp. 2015-2026. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2003.01119.x.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200033I. 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.
Kew_2019_322Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.