Phormium aloides

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Family Hemerocallidaceae

Taxonomy:

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), SAH_2023 (8), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_1 (1), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 35 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 187.5 mm (150-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); narrowly_oblong (1); strap-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (2); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
storage_organ (categorical): bulb (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	8	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	8	8	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_1	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
WAH_2023_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
WAH_2023_1	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.