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Vallisneria rubra

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Family Hydrocharitaceae

Taxonomy: Vallisneria rubra (Rendle) Les & S.W.L.Jacobs

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Maidenia rubra W.Fitzg. ex Rendle (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (9), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 47 records in 9 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): dioecious (2); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (4-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): utricle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1); submerged (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): corm (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.25 mm (0.25-0.25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231116D. 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_202379Australian 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.
WAH_2022_266Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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_202222D. 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_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.