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Cheilanthes caudata

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Family Pteridaceae

Taxonomy: Cheilanthes caudata R.Br.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cheilanthes caudata R.Br. var. caudata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cheilanthes pinnatifida D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cheilanthes sp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cheilanthes tenuifolia subsp. caudata (R.Br.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cheilanthes tenuifolia var. diversiloba Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hemionitis caudata (R.Br.) Christenh. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), 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 16 traits from 48 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 335.8 mm (10-640 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 102.69 mm (1.5-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (2); narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_triangular (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (3); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • 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 (4); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_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): 0.34 m (0.04-0.65 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023816D. 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_202389Australian 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
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.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.