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Smilax glyciphylla

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Form
vine
Region
Australia
Rated in
Global
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Listed without a rating (5)
Corroboration (5 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    5 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Krix2019-1; sampling june to august.

      • Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement.

        • “time to flaming (s): 7.5”

          FLAMITS record 5997.

        • “time to smoke (s): 5.7”

          FLAMITS record 6084.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement.

        • “smoke duration (s): 5.1”

          FLAMITS record 6171.

        • “burning duration (s): 14.9”

          FLAMITS record 6231.

    • “time to flaming (s): 12.15”

      FLAMITS record 9717; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Murray2013-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Murray2013: Murray, B. R., Hardstaff, L. K., & Phillips, M. L. (2013). Differences in leaf flammability, leaf traits and flammability-trait relationships between native and exotic plant species of dry sclerophyll forest. PLoS One, 8, e79205.

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