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Nymphaea violacea

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Family Nymphaeaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphaea violacea Lehm.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Nymphaea brownii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea casparyi Rehnelt & F.Henkel ex F.Henkel, Rehnelt & Dittmann (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea gigantea var. violacea (Lehm.) Conard (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nymphaea gigantea var. violacea (Lehm.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nymphaea holtzei Rehnelt & F.Henkel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea holtzei Rehnelt & F.Henkel var. holtzei (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea holtzei var. albiflora Rehnelt & F.Henkel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea rehneltiana F.Henkel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea violacea Lehm. var. violacea (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nymphaea violacea var. caerulea Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nymphaea violacea var. coerulea Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), Nano_2011 (2), 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 30 traits from 64 records in 13 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 37.5 mm (25-50 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): 293.75 mm (65-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 225 mm (40-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 200 cm (200-200 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_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 (4) [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): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.69 mg (0.46-0.92 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.92 mm (0.5-1.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231625D. 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_20231012Australian 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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
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.