AusTraits

Nymphaea pubescens

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Family Nymphaeaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphaea pubescens Willd.

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

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 44 records in 7 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): 28.5 mm (20-37 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (30-55 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 42.5 mm (30-55 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): 425 mm (110-740 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 130 mm (90-170 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 200 cm (200-200 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_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 (2); 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 (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.52 mm (1.4-1.7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.2-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231422D. 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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.