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Blyxa octandra

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Family Hydrocharitaceae

Taxonomy: Blyxa octandra (Roxb.) Thwaites

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blyxa roxburghi Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Blyxa roxburghii Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vallisneria octandra Roxb. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 46 records in 9 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); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 44.25 mm (23-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): schizocarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 402.5 mm (160-700 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: NTH_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 (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): submerged (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.45 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231113Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023813D. 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/.
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/.
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_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.