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Lygodium microphyllum

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Family Lygodiaceae

Taxonomy: Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R.Br.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lygodium mycrophyllum F.M.Bailey (orthographic variant)
  • Lygodium scandens var. microphylla Luerss. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lygodium scandens var. microphyllum (Cav.) Luerss. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ugena microphylla Cav. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (15), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2023 (10), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 56 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 48.83 mm (9-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.54 mm (4-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); oblong (1); ovate (3); terete (1); triangular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (2); truncate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); fern (2); herb (1) [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): climbing (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 8 m (1-15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

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/.
NHNSW_2023810N. 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/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_234Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.