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Xenostegia tridentata

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Xenostegia tridentata (L.) D.F.Austin & Staples

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Convolvulus denticulatus (R.Br.) Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus hastatus Desr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Convolvulus tridentatus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Evolvulus tridentatus (L.) L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ipomoea denticulata R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ipomoea tridentata (L.) Roth (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Merremia hastata Hallier f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Merremia tridentata (L.) Hallier f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Merremia tridentata subsp. hastata Ooststr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Quamoclit denticulata (R.Br.) Raf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Quamoclita denticulata Raf. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ipomoea angustifolia Jacq. (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (8), Kew_2019_6 (13), Kooyman_2011 (12), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 116 records in 18 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): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (10-75 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.75 mm (2-16 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.2-0.2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_triangular (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); hastate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (4); herb (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10.09 mg (3.47-12 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222328L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231317D. 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/.
Kew_2019_6113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Cooper_2013912W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Kew_2019_118Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_202244D. 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_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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Lord_199733J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.