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Ornithogalum maximum

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Ornithogalum maximum (Burm.f.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Albuca canadensis (L.) F.M.Leight. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Albuca major L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Albuca maxima Burm.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ornithogalum canadense L. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_1 (1), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 26 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.

fire response
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (2); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): bulb (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.88 m (0.25-1.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_202389Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_111Western 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.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.