Liparis reflexa

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cestichis reflexa (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
Cymbidium reflexum R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leptorchis reflexa Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Leptorkis reflexa (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Liparis foliosa Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl. var. reflexa (nomenclatural synonym)
Lipsaris reflexa Nubl. (orthographic variant)
Sturmia reflexa (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Hughes_1992 (3), Kubiak_2009 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Pickup_2021 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 55 records in 11 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 (3); resprouts (2) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 9 mo (9-9 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (2); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 1.25 cm (1-1.5 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

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

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1); lithophyte (1); terrestrial (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1); nyyyyynnnnnn (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
storage_organ (categorical): pseudobulb (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.2-0.2 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	17	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	6	8	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/.
Pickup_2021	3	6	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.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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/.
Kubiak_2009	1	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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.