Oenothera indecora

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Family Onagraceae

Taxonomy: Oenothera indecora Cambess.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aenothera indecora Cambess. (orthographic variant)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 55 records in 9 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: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 24.25 mm (17-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.92 mm (1.5-2.2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 44.38 mm (15-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.88 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); rosette (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; NTH_2023; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.52 m (0.15-0.6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	11	18	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	11	15	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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/.
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.