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Marianthus bignoniaceus

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Marianthus bignoniaceus F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Billardiera bignoniacea (F.Muell.) E.M.Benn. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Cheal_2017 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (17), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 102 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 36.38 mm (2-87 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 16.75 mm (3-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (3); truncate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (2); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2); vertebrate (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.73 mg (0.73-0.73 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.12 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (2); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231622S. 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/.
ABRS_20231518Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231417VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Cheal_201722D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
RBGV_202222VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_202222S. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.