Blandfordia nobilis

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Family Blandfordiaceae

Taxonomy: Blandfordia nobilis Sm.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Blandfordia nobilis Sm. var. nobilis (nomenclatural synonym)
Blandfordia nobilis var. imperialis W.Mill. & N.Taylor (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Chen_2017 (5), Hughes_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kubiak_2009 (7), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), NSWFRD_2014 (11), Ooi_2007 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 79 records in 17 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 15 mo (15-15 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2000 mm2 (2000-2000 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
leaf_length (numerical): 675 mm (600-750 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 265.25 g/m2 (265.25-265.25 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Ooi_2007]
storage_organ (categorical): corm (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.96 mg (0.76-2.82 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995; Ooi_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NSWFRD_2014	9	11	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.
ABRS_2023	9	9	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	9	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/.
Ooi_2007	2	9	M. K. J. Ooi, P. Myerscough, and T. Auld. “Unpublished data: Longterm seed mass field campaign, University of New South Wales”. 2007.
Kubiak_2009	5	7	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Leishman_1995	5	5	M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Leishman_1993	1	1	M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.