AusTraits

Odontonema cuspidatum

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Odontonema cuspidatum (Nees) Kuntze

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Thyrsacanthus cuspidatus Nees (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Odontonema tubaeforme (Bertol.) Kuntze (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (3), NHNSW_2024 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 18 records in 4 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 21.5 mm (16-27 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 175 mm (40-310 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (3-3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.5 m (2-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2024912N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_201333W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.