Nymphoides aurantiaca

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Family Menyanthaceae

Taxonomy: Nymphoides aurantiaca (Dalzell) Kuntze

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Limnanthemum aurantiacum Dalzell (nomenclatural synonym)
Limnanthemum hydrocharoides (F.Muell.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Nymphodes hydrocharodes Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Nymphoides aurantiacum Kuntze (orthographic variant)
Nymphoides hydrocharoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Villarsia aurantiaca Ridl. ex C.B.Clarke (taxonomic synonym)
Villarsia hydrocharoides F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2022 (5), NTH_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 36 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_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 41.5 mm (8-75 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 100 cm (100-100 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); orbicular (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.5-2.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.5-2.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	13	18	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/.
NTH_2022	5	5	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/.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.