Cyathea australis

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Family Cyatheaceae

Taxonomy: Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alsophila australis R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Alsophila australis var. glauca F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Alsophila loddigesii Kunze (taxonomic synonym)
Alsophila loddigessii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Cyathea australis var. glauca (F.M.Bailey) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Cyathea loddigesii (Kunze) Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (7), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (3), Fonseca_2000 (5), Kubiak_2009 (3), McGlone_2015 (4), Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2022 (1), NHNSW_2023 (6), NSWFRD_2014 (10), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Williams_2011 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 76 records in 14 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1536.9 mm2 (717.6-2356.19 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 2500 mm (2000-3000 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.9 mm (2.9-2.9 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 42 mg (42-42 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 58.14 g/m2 (58.14-58.14 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (5); herb (1); palmoid (4); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_system (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2); barochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020; Williams_2011]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1); widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
bud_bank_location (categorical): apical_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0 mg (0-0 mg) [sources: Williams_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 14.67 m (12-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Williams_2011	11	11	R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
NSWFRD_2014	9	10	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Cheal_2017	7	7	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.
NHNSW_2023	5	6	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/.
Fonseca_2000	5	5	C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
McGlone_2015	4	4	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Cooper_2013	3	3	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2022	1	1	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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.