Prasophyllum atratum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Prasophyllum atratum D.L.Jones & D.T.Rouse

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Paraprasophyllum atratum (D.L.Jones & D.T.Rouse) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), SPRAT_2025_2 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 25 records in 6 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: SPRAT_2025_2]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 205 mm (120-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SPRAT_2025_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SPRAT_2025_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.22 m (0.15-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SPRAT_2025_2	8	11	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
ABRS_2023	5	7	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	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.