Blechnum fluviatile

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Family Blechnaceae

Taxonomy: Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cranfillia fluviatilis (R.Br.) Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich (nomenclatural synonym)
Lomaria fluviatilis (R.Br.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
Spicanta fluviatilis (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Stegania fluviatilis R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (9), Meers_2007 (8), Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (10), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 64 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: Meers_2007]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1178.1 mm2 (1178.1-1178.1 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 360.33 mm (9-750 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (2-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (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 (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): chamaephyte (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Meers_2007; White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Meers_2007; 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); vegetative (1) [sources: Meers_2007; White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Meers_2007]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	16	16	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	6	10	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_2023	7	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.
RBGV_2023	8	9	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Meers_2007	8	8	T. Meers. “Role of plant functional traits in determining the response of vegetation to land use change on the Delatite Peninsula, Victoria.”. PhD. University of Melbourne, 2007.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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_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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.