Cyrtostylis robusta

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Cyrtostylis robusta D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acianthus reniformis (R.Br.) Schltr. (misapplied)
Acianthus reniformis (R.Br.) Schltr. (pro parte misapplied)
Cyrtostylis reniformis R.Br. (misapplied)
Cyrtostylis reniformis R.Br. var. reniformis (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (6), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Cheal_2017 (1), Draper_2023 (3), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 87 records in 17 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 (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; White_2020]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 38.5 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.17 mm (10-51 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); orbicular (2); reniform (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Standish_2019; White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): orchid_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (1); nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0 mg (0-0 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.18 m (0.04-0.3 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	21	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	8	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. 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.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
ABRS_2023	4	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Cheal_2017	1	1	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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.