Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica

Early Nancy at Hackett, ACT

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Identification history

	Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica	15 Aug 2020	MichaelMulvaney
	Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica	15 Aug 2020	jb2602

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First photo - female on left, male on right; in the other photos, the flowers have both stamens and ovaries. Can they self fertilise?

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MichaelMulvaney wrote:

15 Aug 2020

I hadn't noticed this before, great question. Wumbea plants aren't actually male or female but can alter their sex depending on resources - not sure if they are self fertile but this paper has more info
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278287/

jb2602 wrote:

15 Aug 2020

There were many more male than female flowers (~90%), very small number of hermaphrodites (~1). Those plants that were female occurred in small clumps. Often there were no females to be found in a vast array of males.

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16 - 100 Abundance
14 Aug 2020 03:24 PM Recorded on
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Species information

Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Scientific name
Early Nancy Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 982m Recorded at altitude
605 images trained Machine learning
In flower
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