Lonicera japonica

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Family Caprifoliaceae

Taxonomy: Lonicera japonica Thunb.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lonicera confusa DC. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kubiak_2009 (2), Mesaglio_2022 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), NSWFRD_2014 (2), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (17), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (8), Stephens_2023 (1), WAH_2022_1 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (27). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 106 records in 18 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 54.17 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 25.83 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.62 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (3); ovate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (3); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); herb (1); shrub (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2); dense (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
pollination_system (categorical): bee (1); moth (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (2); nnyyynnnnnnn (1); ynnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.83 m (2-10 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_2021	24	27	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
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/.
RBGV_2023	13	17	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	7	8	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	6	6	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2014	2	4	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Mesaglio_2022	1	3	T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kubiak_2009	1	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NSWFRD_2014	2	2	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
RBGV_2022	2	2	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_1	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.