Asplenium australasicum

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Family Aspleniaceae

Taxonomy: Asplenium australasicum (J.Sm.) Hook.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium australasicum (J.Sm.) Hook. f. australasicum (nomenclatural synonym)
Asplenium australasicum f. robinsonii (F.Muell.) P.S.Green (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium robinsonii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium squamulatum ß smithii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Neottopteris australasica J.Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
Thamnopteris australasica (J.Sm.) T.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium nidus L. (misapplied)
Thamnopteris nidus (L.) C.Presl (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (11), Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (6), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Pickup_2021 (20), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 54 records in 10 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 (6) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (4) [sources: Pickup_2021]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 912.5 mm (500-1750 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 125 mm (30-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); fern (4); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (4) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Pickup_2021	5	20	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
ABRS_2023	9	11	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	4	6	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/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kubiak_2009	1	1	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.