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Passiflora aurantia

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Family Passifloraceae

Taxonomy: Passiflora aurantia G.Forst.

Synonyms: 23 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Disemma adiantifolia (Ker Gawl.) DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Disemma aurantia (G.Forst.) Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Disemma baueri (Lindl.) G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Disemma baueriana (Endl.) Lem. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Disemma baueriana Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Disemma brachystephanea F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Disemma coccinea DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Distemma adiantifolia (Ker Gawl.) Lem. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Murucuia aurantia (G.Forst.) Pers. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Murucuia baueri Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Murucuja baueri Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora adiantifolia Ker Gawl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora adiantum Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora aurantia var. banksii (Benth.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora banksii Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora banksii Benth. var. banksii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Passiflora banksii var. brachystephanea (F.Muell.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora banksii var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora baueri (Endl.) Mast. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora baueriana Mast. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora brachystephana Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora brachystephanea (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Passiflora glabra J.C.Wendl. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), McCarthy_2017 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 67 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 34.17 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3038.07 mm2 (3038.07-3038.07 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.25 cm (1-3.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 14.73 g/m2 (14.73-14.73 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Butler_2004]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.53-0.53 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231419Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2023810N. 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/.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.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.
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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
McCarthy_201733J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202222N. 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/.
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.