AusTraits

Liparophyllum gunnii

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Family Menyanthaceae

Taxonomy: Liparophyllum gunnii Hook.f.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Limnanthemum gunnii (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Villarsia gunnii (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (10), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 24 records in 6 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 7147.12 mm2 (7147.12-7147.12 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.2 mm (1.2-1.2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
TMAG_2009910Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Jordan_200166G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Mokany_201511K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.