AusTraits

Crinum arenarium

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Family Amaryllidaceae

Taxonomy: Crinum arenarium Herb.

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Crinum angustifolium R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum angustifolium var. confertum (Herb.) Baker (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum angustifolium var. darwinense Lehmiller & Lykos (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum angustifolium var. darwinensis Lehmiller & Lykos (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum arenarium Herb. var. arenarium (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Crinum asiaticum var. angustifolium (Herb.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum australasicum Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum australasicum Herb. var. australasicum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum australasicum var. angustifolium Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum australasicum var. arenarium (Herb.) Herb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Crinum australasicum var. confertum (Herb.) Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum brisbanicum F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Crinum confertum Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Liriamus quinqueflorus Raf. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Crinum asiaticum L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), Brock_1993 (10), Chen_2017 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2023 (6), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 48 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 675 mm (300-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): bulb (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_202357Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202346D. 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/.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
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.