AusTraits

Nephrolepis acutifolia

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Family Lomariopsidaceae

Taxonomy: Nephrolepis acutifolia (Desv.) Christ

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Isoloma lanuginosa J.Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lindsaea acutifolia Desv. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lindsaea lanuginosa (J.Sm.) Wall. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lindsaya lanuginosa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 34 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): 1295 mm (10-2000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2); undulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (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) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023811Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231010D. 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/.
Nano_201144C. 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.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_202222D. 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_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.