AusTraits

Ipomoea tiliifolia

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Ipomoea tiliifolia (Desr.) Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Argyreia tiliifolia (Desr.) Wight (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Convolvulus grandiflorus L.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus tiliaefolia Desr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Convolvulus tiliifolius Desr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ipomoea grandiflora (L.f.) Lam. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rivea tiliaefolia Choisy (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rivea tiliifolia (Desr.) Choisy (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stictocardia tiliaefolia Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stictocardia tiliifolia (Desr.) Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ipomoea campanulata L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): ChI, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Hyland_2003 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), NHNSW_2016 (3), Nano_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 41 records in 9 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 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]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 113750 mm2 (113750-113750 mm2) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 110 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2016]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: Hyland_2003; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: NHNSW_2016]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Nano_201144C. 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.
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.
NHNSW_201633National Herbarium of NSW. Trait measurements for NSW rainforest species from PLantNET. 2016. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Hyland_200311B. P. M. Hyland, T. Whiffin, D. Christophel, B. Gray, and R. W. Elick. Australian tropical rain forest plants trees, shrubs and vines. CSIRO Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0643068724.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.