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Proiphys amboinensis

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Family Amaryllidaceae

Taxonomy: Proiphys amboinensis (L.) Herb.

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cepa amboinensis (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eurycles alata Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles amboinensis (L.) Lindl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eurycles amboinensis Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles australasicus (Ker Gawl.) G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles australis Schult. & Schult.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles silvestris F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. ex Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pancratium amboinense L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pancratium australasicum Ker Gawl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pancratium australe Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 55 records in 11 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): 25 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 22.5 mm (15-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (1); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1); yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): bulb (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_198135B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western 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.