Gleichenia alpina
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Family Gleicheniaceae
Taxonomy: Gleichenia alpina R.Br.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Calymella alpina (R.Br.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
- Gleichenia dicarpa var. alpina (R.Br.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Mertensia alpina (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Platyzoma alpinum (R.Br.) Desv. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pteris platyzoma Christenh. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (6), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), Mokany_2015 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 15 records in 6 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 (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 63.62 mm2 (63.62-63.62 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 160 mm (100-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 5 | 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 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 1 | 1 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |