AusTraits

Nymphaea hastifolia

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Family Nymphaeaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphaea hastifolia Domin

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 53 records in 11 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_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 17 mm (17-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 17 mm (17-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 151.25 mm (40-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 112.5 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 80 cm (80-80 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); ephemeral (1); perennial (3); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): floating (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2); stem_tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.07 mg (1.07-1.07 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); globoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231723D. 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_202388Australian 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_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
NTH_202233D. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.