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Blyxa aubertii

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Family Hydrocharitaceae

Taxonomy: Blyxa aubertii Rich.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blyxa auberti Rich. (orthographic variant)
  • Blyxa aubertii Rich. var. aubertii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Blyxa sp. nov. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (10), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 72 records in 10 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): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 45 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): schizocarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 287.5 mm (40-700 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.75 mm (3-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (2); submerged (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.2-1.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222022L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231116Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023811D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2510Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. 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_200622A. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.