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Lygodium flexuosum

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Family Lygodiaceae

Taxonomy: Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hydroglossum scandens (L.) Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lygodium scandens (L.) Sw. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lygodium semibipinnatum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ophioglossum flexuosum L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ophioglossum scandens L. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lygodium circinnatum (Burm.f.) Sw. (misapplied)
  • Lygodium dichotomum (Cav.) Sw. (misapplied)
  • Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Sw. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (15), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 43 records in 8 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 68.44 mm (8-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 27.75 mm (4.5-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1); terete (1); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (1); fern (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023915Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023915D. 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/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.