Crinum pedunculatum

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Family Amaryllidaceae

Taxonomy: Crinum pedunculatum R.Br.

Synonyms: 19 (APC 2026-07-30)

Crinum amabile Donn (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Crinum amabile Donn ex Ker Gawl. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Crinum asiaticum var. pedunculatum (R.Br.) Fosberg & Sachet (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe Donn (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe Herb. var. australe (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe var. canaliculatum (Roxb.) Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe var. exaltatum (Herb.) Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum australe var. pedunculatum (R.Br.) Herb. (nomenclatural synonym)
Crinum australe var. rubricaule Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum brachyandrum Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum brevilimbum Carey ex Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum canaliculatum Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum douglasii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum exaltatum Herb. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum norfolkianum A.Cunn. ex Heward (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum rubricaule (Herb.) M.Roem. (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum taitense Redouté (taxonomic synonym)
Crinum taitense var. queenslandicum Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 72 records in 11 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 40 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 925 mm (500-1200 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 100 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (1); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1) [sources: White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 31 mm (22-40 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.84 m (0.45-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	21	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	7	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024	5	7	N. 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/.
ABRS_2023	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_1981	4	4	B. 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/.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.