Nypa fruticans

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Family Arecaceae

Taxonomy: Nypa fruticans Wurmb

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Nipa fruticans Thunb. (orthographic variant)
Nipa fruticans var. neameana F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Nypa fruticans var. neameana F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (21), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_5 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 89 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

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 121.67 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 65 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 3216.67 mm (500-9000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 65 mm (50-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 172.5 cm (50-400 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); peltate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): palmoid (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
pollination_system (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (3) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 51.67 mm (40-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 13 m (13-13 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	22	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	12	21	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	15	19	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
Kew_2019_5	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.