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Nymphaea immutabilis

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Family Nymphaeaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphaea immutabilis S.W.L.Jacobs

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Nymphaea immutabilis S.W.L.Jacobs subsp. immutabilis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nymphaea lotus var. australis F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (7), ABRS_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (10), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 44 records in 9 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): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); ephemeral (2); perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): floating (2); rhizomatous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023814Australian 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_2510Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202247Australian 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.
ABRS_198133B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.