Lemna aequinoctialis
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Family Araceae
Taxonomy: Lemna aequinoctialis Welw.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lemna angolensis Welw. ex Hegelm. (taxonomic synonym)
- Lemna paucicostata Hegelm. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lemna minor L. (pro parte misapplied)
- Lemna perpusilla Torr. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (11), NTH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 58 records in 7 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.5-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 0.55 mm (0.4-0.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); utricle (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.8 mm (1-2.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): pollination_rare (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 0.62 mm (0.45-0.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.3-0.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| NTH_2023 | 10 | 16 | 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 | 9 | 11 | 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 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| 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. |