AusTraits

Nervilia aragoana

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Nervilia aragoana Gaudich.

Synonyms: 15 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aplostellis flabelliformis Ridl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epipactis carinata Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Epipactis flabelliformis Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nervilia arogoana B.Hyland (orthographic variant)
  • Nervilia carinata (Roxb.) Schltr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nervilia flabelliformis (Lindl.) Tang & F.T.Wang (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nervilia scottii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nervilia tibetensis Rolfe (taxonomic synonym)
  • Nervilia yaeyamensis Hayata (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia carinata (Roxb.) Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia flabelliformis Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia flabelliformis Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia gracilis Blume (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia nervilia Blume (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pogonia scottii Rchb.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Brock_1993 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 47 records in 9 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 3.75 cm (3.5-4 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.35-0.35 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022911L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_202378Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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.