Lindsaea brachypoda

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Family Lindsaeaceae

Taxonomy: Lindsaea brachypoda (Baker) Salomon

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Davallia brachypoda Baker (nomenclatural synonym)
Lindsaea cultrata var. brachypoda (Baker) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Lindsaya cultrata var. brachypoda Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lindsaea concinna J.Sm. (misapplied)
Lindsaea cultrata (Willd.) Sw. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 51 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 134.83 mm (3-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 11.08 mm (2-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); obovate (1); obtriangular (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed_crenate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); lobed_shallow (1); unlobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	8	14	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/.
NTH_2023	8	12	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2022	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.