Nymphaea nouchali
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Family Nymphaeaceae
Taxonomy: Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Nymphaea minima F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
- Nymphaea stellata Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Nymphaea tetragona Georgi (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 52 records in 8 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): 17 mm (17-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 24.75 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 24.75 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; 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): 90 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 118.75 mm (45-230 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 50 cm (50-50 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1); stem_tuber (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.2 mm (1-1.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.8-1.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 17 | 23 | 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 | 7 | 10 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 4 | 5 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |