Cyathea leichhardtiana

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Family Cyatheaceae

Taxonomy: Cyathea leichhardtiana (F.Muell.) Copel.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alsophila leichhardtiana F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Alsophila leichhardtiana F.Muell. var. leichhardtiana (nomenclatural synonym)
Alsophila leichhardtii F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
Alsophila macarthurii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Alsophila moorei J.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
Amphicosmia australis (C.Presl) T.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Cyathea australiensis Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Cyathea leichardtiana Copel. (orthographic variant)
Cyathea leichhardtiana (F.Muell.) Copel. var. leichhardtiana (nomenclatural synonym)
Hemitelia australis C.Presl (taxonomic synonym)
Sphaeropteris australis (C.Presl) R.M.Tryon (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (3), McGlone_2015 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (1), NHNSW_2023 (5), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Pickup_2021 (10), RBGV_2023 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 68 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): partial_resprouting (3); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 2005.56 mm (100-3000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (1); triangular (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_crenate (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (5); palmoid (5); shrub (1); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7 m (7-7 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	17	17	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Pickup_2021	5	10	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.
ABRS_2023	6	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	5	6	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	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.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.