Asplenium aethiopicum

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Family Aspleniaceae

Taxonomy: Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm.f.) Bech.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium adiantoides Lam. (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium furcatum Thunb. (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium praemorsum Sw. (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium praemorsum var. furcatum (Thunb.) T.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Tarachia browniana C.Presl (taxonomic synonym)
Tarachia furcata (Thunb.) C.Presl (taxonomic synonym)
Tarachia furcata var. platyphylla C.Presl (taxonomic synonym)
Trichomanes aethiopicum Burm.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium falcatum var. bipinnatum Sledge (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Barrett_2009 (2), Burrows_2008_2 (1), Burrows_2020 (2), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (9), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (11), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 71 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 154.28 mm (8-600 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 70 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); obtriangular (2); ovate (2); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (8); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1); lithophyte (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

dispersal_unit (categorical): spore (1) [sources: Burrows_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.1-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	8	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	8	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	7	9	N. 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/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian 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_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	1	2	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Burrows_2020	2	2	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	N. 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/.
RBGV_2022	2	2	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Burrows_2008_2	1	1	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.