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Blechnum orientale

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Family Blechnaceae

Taxonomy: Blechnum orientale L.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asplenium orientale (L.) Bernh. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Blechnopsis orientalis (L.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Blechnum occidentale L. (orthographic variant)
  • Salpichlaena orientalis (L.) Fée (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Spicanta orientalis (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 39 records in 9 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 396.25 mm (50-2000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.25 mm (5-23 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1); subulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (3); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.15 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023711D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023710Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_245Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.