Hanguana malayana

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Family Hanguanaceae

Taxonomy: Hanguana malayana (Jack) Merr.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hanguana malayana f. aquatica Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Susum anthelminthicum Blume ex Schult. & Schult.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Susum malayanum f. aquaticum Backer (taxonomic synonym)
Veratrum malayanum Jack (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (7), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 85 records in 16 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 1200 mm (1200-1200 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 150 mm (150-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); sheathing (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1); terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17 mg (17-17 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.81 m (1-2.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	28	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2023	8	11	D. 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/.
ABRS_2023	6	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. 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.
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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2022	2	2	D. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.