AusTraits

Vallisneria nana

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Family Hydrocharitaceae

Taxonomy: Vallisneria nana R.Br.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Vallisneria gigantea Graebn. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Vallisneria spiralis L. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Vallisneria spiralis var. denseserrulata Makino (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (7), Draper_2023 (4), Hughes_1992 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (6), NHNSW_2023 (11), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), SAH_2022 (5), SAH_2023 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 77 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); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): utricle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); red (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1675 mm (700-2000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.67 mm (3.5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); strap-shaped (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): floating (1); stoloniferous (3); submerged (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyynnnnnnnn (1); nyyyyyyyynnn (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.85 mm (1.3-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1); fusiform (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023911N. 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/.
NTH_2023911D. 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_202367Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202266Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202266N. 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/.
SAH_202255S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_255Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202344J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202344S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NTH_202233D. 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_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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.