Ceratopteris thalictroides
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Family Pteridaceae
Taxonomy: Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Acrostichum thalictroides L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ceratopteris cornuta (P.Beauv.) Lepr. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (12), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (8), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 51 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.
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 380.83 mm (40-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 137.5 mm (10-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (3); herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (3); terrestrial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1); rosette (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2022_2]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0 mg (0-0 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 6 | 12 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| NTH_2023 | 7 | 10 | D. 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/. |
| NHNSW_2023 | 7 | 8 | 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/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 5 | 5 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 4 | 4 | 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| 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/. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |