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Microlepia speluncae

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Family Dennstaedtiaceae

Taxonomy: Microlepia speluncae (L.) T.Moore

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aspidium speluncae (L.) Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Davallia flaccida R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Davallia speluncae (L.) Baker (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dicksonia polypodioides Sw. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Microlepia flaccida (R.Br.) J.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Polypodium speluncae L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichomanes flaccida (R.Br.) Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dennstaedtia davallioides (R.Br.) T.Moore (misapplied)
  • Dicksonia davallioides R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (1), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 36 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): 501.78 mm (12-1750 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 366.5 mm (8-1200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_shallow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (3); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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): bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023710D. 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_202368Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_223Western 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.
NTH_202211D. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.