Pontederia hastata
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Family Pontederiaceae
Taxonomy: Pontederia hastata L.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Monochoria hastata (L.) Solms (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (12), Kew_2019_3 (3), NTH_2022 (1), NTH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 37 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; 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): 170 mm (130-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 65 mm (20-110 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 14.88 cm (10.5-19 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): sagittate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 9 | 14 | 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 | 10 | 12 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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. |
| Kew_2019_3 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| NTH_2022 | 1 | 1 | 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |