Murdannia gigantea
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Family Commelinaceae
Taxonomy: Murdannia gigantea (Vahl) G.Brückn.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Aneilema gigantea R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Aneilema giganteum (Vahl) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Aneilema giganteum (Vahl) R.Br. var. giganteum (nomenclatural synonym)
- Aneilema giganteum var. gracilis Benth. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Commelina gigantea Vahl (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Lord_1997 (3), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 9 traits from 11 records in 5 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: Lord_1997; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.47 mg (4.47-4.47 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Lord_1997 | 3 | 3 | J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |