Parapachygone longifolia

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Family Menispermaceae

Taxonomy: Parapachygone longifolia (F.M.Bailey) Forman

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pachygone longifolia F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (16), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 88 records in 12 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 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.4-0.5 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 34 mm (25-43 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 30600 mm2 (30600-30600 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 167.5 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 76.25 mm (35-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (2); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1300 mg (1300-1300 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	20	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Metcalfe_2009	16	16	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	8	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	9	11	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.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Gallagher_2012	3	3	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.