Persicaria elatior

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Family Polygonaceae

Taxonomy: Persicaria elatior (R.Br.) Soják

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Polygonum elatius R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), SPRAT_2025_2 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 30 records in 7 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): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.3 mm (2.1-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (1); nut (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (30-110 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.97 mg (1.97-1.97 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.9 m (0.9-0.9 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	12	16	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/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SPRAT_2025_2	1	1	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.