Polymeria calycina

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Polymeria calycina R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Polymeria calycina R.Br. var. calycina (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Hughes_1992 (2), Kubiak_2009 (4), Mesaglio_2022 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (21), NSWFRD_2014 (8), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Soliveres_2012 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21), Wright_2000 (4), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 127 records in 19 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Benwell_2024; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 13.2 mo (13.2-13.2 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1); pink (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (10-65 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 9.75 mm (3-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.12 cm (0.2-3.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (2); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); cordate (1); obtuse (1); sagittate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); herb (6) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; Soliveres_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1) [sources: White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1); epizoochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: Soliveres_2012; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1); water (1); wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1); yyyynnnnnyyy (1); yyyyynnnnnny (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (4) [sources: Hughes_1992; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	22	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	15	21	N. 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/.
White_2020	21	21	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_2023	11	14	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Kubiak_2009	3	4	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_2000	4	4	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Mesaglio_2022	1	3	T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Hughes_1992	2	2	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Soliveres_2012	2	2	S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.