AusTraits

Smilax aculeatissima

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Family Smilacaceae

Taxonomy: Smilax aculeatissima Conran

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (18), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (12), Kooyman_2011 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (55), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 108 records in 11 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
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2553.82 mm2 (2283.98-2667.05 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 145 mm (70-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 95.83 mg (89.29-118.45 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2.5-4.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 37.65 g/m2 (33.57-44.41 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.18 g/g (0.16-0.21 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.41 mg/mm3 (0.4-0.42 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122255J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
ABRS_20231318Australian 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.
Kooyman_201168R. 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_201744Chen, 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.
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_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.