Halophila minor
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Family Hydrocharitaceae
Taxonomy: Halophila minor (Zoll.) Hartog
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lemnopsis minor Zoll. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (14), Kew_2019_3 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 38 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 (2); trioecious (1) [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): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 8 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (2.5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (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): annual (2); 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1); rhizome_fleshy (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 12 | 14 | 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_2022 | 6 | 6 | Australian 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_2 | 6 | 6 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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. |