Blechnum medium
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Family Blechnaceae
Taxonomy: Blechnum medium (R.Br.) Christenh.
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Doodia caudata f. triloba (F.Muell.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Doodia caudata var. media (R.Br.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Doodia caudata var. triloba F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Doodia media R.Br. subsp. media (nomenclatural synonym)
- Doodia media R.Br. var. media (nomenclatural synonym)
- Woodwardia media (R.Br.) Fée (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Doodia caudata (Cav.) R.Br. (misapplied)
- Doodia kunthiana Gaudich. (misapplied)
- Doodia lunulata R.Br. ex E.J.Lowe (misapplied)
- Doodia media var. kunthiana (Gaudich.) Maiden (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Qld, LHI, NI
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (57). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 60 records in 3 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: White_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (4) [sources: Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (3) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (3) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 57 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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. |