Zehneria mucronata

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Family Cucurbitaceae

Taxonomy: Zehneria mucronata (Blume) Miq.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bryonia mucronata Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
Melothria alba (Ridl.) Cogn. (taxonomic synonym)
Melothria mucronata (Blume) Cogn. (nomenclatural synonym)
Zehneria alba Ridl. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (18), Cooper_2013 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 41 records in 8 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); monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.75 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_herbaceous (2); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1); ynnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.