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Cheilanthes fragillima

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Family Pteridaceae

Taxonomy: Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hemionitis fragillima (F.Muell.) Christenh. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nothochlaena fragilis Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Notholaena fragilis Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cheilanthes fragilis Hook. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 38 records in 10 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): 270 mm (50-500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 132.5 mm (50-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); oblong (1); ovate (3); triangular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (4); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; 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): 0.24 m (0.08-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023610D. 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_202378Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.