Nymphaea ondinea

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Family Nymphaeaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphaea ondinea Löhne, Wiersema & Borsch

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ondinea purpurea Hartog (taxonomic synonym)
Ondinea purpurea Hartog subsp. purpurea (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (25), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 65 records in 10 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): 15.25 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
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

leaf_length (numerical): 150 mm (60-240 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	12	25	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	10	12	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
WAH_2022_2	4	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	6	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.
Wright_2000	3	3	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. 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_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.