Corunastylis vernalis

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Corunastylis vernalis (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Genoplesium vernale D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
Genoplesium vernalis D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (12), Pickup_2021 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 33 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 140 mm (100-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	9	12	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/.
ABRS_2023	4	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
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.
Pickup_2021	3	3	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
SPRAT_2025_2	2	2	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.