Nervilia holochila

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Nervilia holochila (F.Muell.) Schltr.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pogonia holochila F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Brock_1993 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 43 records in 12 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_dependent_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 141.25 mm (95-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (40-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): plicate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.35-0.35 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Brock_1993	9	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. 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_2006	4	4	A. 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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.