Ludwigia adscendens

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Family Onagraceae

Taxonomy: Ludwigia adscendens (L.) H.Hara

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Jussiaea adscendens L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Jussiaea diffusa Forssk. (taxonomic synonym)
Jussiaea repens L. (taxonomic synonym)
Jussiaea repens var. diffusa (Forssk.) H.Lev. (taxonomic synonym)
Jussieua diffusa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Jussieua repens L. (taxonomic synonym)
Jussieua repens var. diffusa H.Lev. (taxonomic synonym)
Ludwigia adscendens subsp. diffusa (Forssk.) P.H.Raven (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), Chen_2017 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (5), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 61 records in 15 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); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 21 mm (10-27 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 42.75 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 19 mm (4-34 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.15 cm (0.3-4 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); spathulate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); floating (1); prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.52 mg (0.52-0.52 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	18	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.
NTH_2022	5	5	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/.
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.
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_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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).
Nano_2011	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.