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Rotala mexicana

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Family Lythraceae

Taxonomy: Rotala mexicana Cham. & Schltdl.

Synonyms: 23 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ammannia illecebroides Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ammannia illecebroides Koehne (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ammannia mexicana (Cham. & Schltdl.) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ammannia pentandra var. decussata (Sol. ex DC.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ammannia rotala F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ammannia rotala F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Entelia ammannioides Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hypobrichia spruceana Beesley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hypobrichia spruceana Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hypobrichia spruceana C.D.K.Cook (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hypobrichia spruceana Griseb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ortegioides decussata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala apetala F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala decussata Sol. ex DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala diglossandra Koehne (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala illecebroides Koehne (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala longibracteolata Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala mexicana Cham. & Schltdl. var. mexicana (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rotala mexicana subsp. hierniana Koehne (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala mexicana subsp. pusilla (Tul.) Koehne (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala mexicana var. spruceana (Benth.) Koehne (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala pusilla Tul. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Rotala verticillaris L. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Chen_2017 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 76 records in 16 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); red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.62 mm (3.5-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (0.9-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (3); terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (1); nyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.07 m (0.01-0.1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221824L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2023810D. 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_202399Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2023_212Western 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.