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Halophila spinulosa

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Family Hydrocharitaceae

Taxonomy: Halophila spinulosa (R.Br.) Asch.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (19), Kew_2019_3 (2), NHNSW_2024 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 27 traits from 58 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_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • 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): 12.5 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (1.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.75-0.75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.75-0.75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231519Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20241417N. 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_202266Australian 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_266Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_322Royal 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.