Ipomoea plebeia

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea plebeia R.Br.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Convolvulus biflorus L. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Convolvulus plebeius (R.Br.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
Convolvulus plebejus Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
Ipomaea plebeja F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Ipomoea biflorus (L.) Pers. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Ipomoea plebeia R.Br. subsp. plebeia (nomenclatural synonym)
Ipomoea plebeja F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Ipomoea plebia B.Hyland (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kooyman_2011 (12), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (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 35 traits from 93 records in 19 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): fire_killed (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8.67 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 54.17 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 31.67 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.55 cm (0.7-6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (2); triangular (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); cordate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (4); herb (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (3); prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nnnnynnnnnnn (1); yyyyyyynnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2); underground_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.09 mg (12.09-12.09 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	14	19	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	12	17	D. 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_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.