Platycerium bifurcatum

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Family Polypodiaceae

Taxonomy: Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acrostichum bifurcatum Cav. (nomenclatural synonym)
Alcicornium bifurcatum (Cav.) Underw. (nomenclatural synonym)
Platycerium alcicorne var. lanciferum (Domin) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Platycerium alcicorne var. subrhomboideum (Domin) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Platycerium angustatum Desv. (taxonomic synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr. subsp. bifurcatum (nomenclatural synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr. var. bifurcatum (nomenclatural synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum var. lancifera Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum var. lanciferum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum var. normale Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Platycerium bifurcatum var. subrhomboideum Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acrostichum alcicorne P.Willemet (misapplied)
Platycerium alcicorne Desv. (misapplied)
Platycerium bifurcatum subsp. willinckii (T.Moore) Hennipman & M.C.Roos (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, NI (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (10), Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (8), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Pickup_2021 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 77 records in 11 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): fire_killed (5) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 605 mm (220-1050 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 230 mm (50-450 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): reniform (1); strap-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); lobed_deep (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): cam (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); fern (3); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; White_2020]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	36	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
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.
NHNSW_2023	6	8	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2022	5	5	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickup_2021	5	5	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kubiak_2009	1	1	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.