Syngonium podophyllum

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Family Araceae

Taxonomy: Syngonium podophyllum Schott

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

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Metcalfe_2009 (16), NHNSW_2024 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 41 records in 6 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) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 38760 mm2 (38760-38760 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 270 mm (160-380 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 115 mm (60-170 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 35 cm (10-60 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; 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): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): aboveground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 94 mg (94-94 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (5-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
NHNSW_2024	8	11	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	7	10	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.