AusTraits

Epiblema grandiflorum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Epiblema grandiflorum R.Br.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum subsp. cyaneum K.W.Dixon (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. 'caeruleum' (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyanea K.W.Dixon (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyanea N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyaneum A.P.Br., P.Dundas, K.W.Dixon & Hopper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyaneum Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyaneum K.W.Dixon (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum var. cyaneum Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Wilson_2004 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 66 records in 13 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 3.25 cm (2.5-4 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 212.5 mm (150-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.88 mm (2.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); terete (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 (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.62 m (0.25-0.8 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022810L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_202368Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
WAH_2022_236Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_226Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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.
Burrows_2008_244N. 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_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wilson_200422B. A. Wilson, J. Kuehs, L. E. Valentine, T. Sonneman, and K. M. Wolfe. “Guidelines for ecological burning regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems: a case study in Banksia woodlands in Western Australia”. Pacific Conservation Biology 20.1 (2014), p. 57. doi: 10.1071/pc140057.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.