Enhalus acoroides
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Family Hydrocharitaceae
Taxonomy: Enhalus acoroides (L.f.) Royle
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Enhalus koenigii Rich. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Stratiotes acoroides L.f. (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), Kew_2019_3 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 57 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): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): utricle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 900 mm (300-1500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 13.75 mm (12.5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1); submerged (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
- seed_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 20 | 21 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| ABRS_2023 | 9 | 13 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 6 | 6 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| ABRS_2022 | 5 | 5 | 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 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_3 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |