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Cyanicula gertrudae

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Cyanicula gertrudae (Ostenf.) Hopper & A.P.Br.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Caladenia gertrudae Ostenf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cyanicula gertrudeae G.N.Backh., R.J.Bates, A.P.Br. & L.M.Copel. (orthographic variant)
  • Cyanicula gertrudiae Hopper & A.P.Br. (orthographic variant)
  • Cyanicula gertrudiae N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyanicula gertrudiae Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pentisea gertrudae (Ostenf.) Szlach. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pentisea gertrudeae Szlach. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 31 records in 8 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): 38.75 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.25 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.14 m (0.05-0.18 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
ABRS_202357Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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/.
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.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.