Asplenium obtusatum

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Family Aspleniaceae

Taxonomy: Asplenium obtusatum G.Forst.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium obtusatum G.Forst. var. obtusatum (nomenclatural synonym)
Asplenium obtusatum var. minor A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
Asplenium obtusatum var. normale Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asplenium lucidum G.Forst. (misapplied)
Asplenium lucidum var. obliquum (G.Forst.) T.Moore (doubtful misapplied)
Asplenium marinum var. obtusata (G.Forst.) F.Muell. (misapplied)
Asplenium obliquum G.Forst. (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 50 records in 7 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 (2) [sources: White_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 78.54 mm2 (78.54-78.54 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (4); herb (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.46 m (0.03-0.6 m) [sources: Mokany_2015; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	36	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
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/.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.