Cheilanthes sieberi

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Family Pteridaceae

Taxonomy: Cheilanthes sieberi Kunze

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cheilanthes tenuifolia f. gracilior Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Hemionitis sieberi (Kunze) Christenh. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cheilanthes humilis (G.Forst.) P.S.Green (misapplied)
Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Sw. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Cheal_2017 (3), Doherty_2021 (2), Kubiak_2009 (3), Mokany_2015 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2023 (5), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (8), Soliveres_2012 (2), Soper_2014 (5), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2005 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 76 records in 20 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 (2) [sources: Doherty_2021; Kubiak_2009]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 137.44 mm2 (137.44-137.44 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 302.08 mm (30-550 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 35.83 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (4); linear (3); narrowly_lanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (4); triangular (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1); crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (6); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Soliveres_2012; Soper_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2005]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Williams_2005]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (2) [sources: Soliveres_2012; Williams_2005]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Williams_2005]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; Williams_2005]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Doherty_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 6.87 mg/g (6.87-6.87 mg/g) [sources: Soper_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.34 {delta}[ppth] (-27.34--27.34 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Soper_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.31 m (0.05-0.5 m) [sources: Mokany_2015; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	6	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/.
ABRS_2023	8	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	6	8	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	5	5	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/.
Soper_2014	5	5	F. M. Soper, A. E. Richards, I. Siddique, M. P. M. Aidar, G. D. Cook, L. B. Hutley, N. Robinson, and S. Schmidt. “Natural abundance (delta15N) indicates shifts in nitrogen relations of woody taxa along a savanna-woodland continental rainfall gradient”. Oecologia 178.1 (2014), pp. 297-308. doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-3176-3.
Williams_2005	5	5	N. S. G. Williams, J. W. Morgan, M. J. McDonnell, and M. A. McCarthy. “Plant traits and local extinctions in natural grasslands along an urban-rural gradient”. Journal of Ecology 93.6 (2005), pp. 1203-1213. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01039.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cheal_2017	3	3	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Kubiak_2009	3	3	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Doherty_2021	2	2	M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Soliveres_2012	2	2	S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.