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Alisma lanceolatum

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Family Alismataceae

Taxonomy: Alisma lanceolatum With.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alisma lanceolata With. (orthographic variant)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alisma plantago-aquatica L. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (10), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (10), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 82 records in 14 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (3); nutlet (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 187.09 mm (66.7-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 39.72 mm (13.3-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 48.4 cm (12-80 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (3); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): corm (1); rhizome (1); rhizome_fleshy (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.47 mg (0.44-0.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231213Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023912VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2810Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024810N. 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/.
SAH_2023810S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202255Australian 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_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.