AusTraits

Passiflora edulis

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Family Passifloraceae

Taxonomy: Passiflora edulis Sims

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), BRAIN_2007 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kubiak_2009 (1), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (7), Mesaglio_2022 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (1), NHNSW_2023 (14), RBGV_2022 (1), RBGV_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (1), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 94 records in 20 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (40-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 40 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); purple (3); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 125.83 mm (50-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 132.5 mm (70-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.75 cm (1.5-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 46.3 g/m2 (46.3-46.3 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (4); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: BRAIN_2007; Leishman_1995]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Mesaglio_2022]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.82 mg (11.5-15.46 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: Leishman_1995]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231520Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231216VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231014N. 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/.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Leishman_199577M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
BRAIN_200711Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network. Trait measurements for Australian rainforest species. 2016. url: http://www.brisrain.org.au/.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_200911P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Mesaglio_202211T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
NHNSW_202211N. 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/.
RBGV_202211VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.