Pterostylis alata

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Pterostylis alata (Labill.) Rchb.f.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diplodium alatum (Labill.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)
Diplodium alatum (Labill.) Sw. (nomenclatural synonym)
Diplodium australe Sw. (nomenclatural synonym)
Disperis alata Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterostylis alata (Labill.) Rchb.f. var. alata (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterostylis praecox Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Pterostylis praecox Lindl. var. praecox (taxonomic synonym)
Pterostylis reflexa var. praecox (Lindl.) Ewart & Jean White (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (6), Draper_2023 (3), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (42). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 78 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 545.2 mm2 (545.2-545.2 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 18 mm (6-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 9 mm (4-14 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (1); nnyyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: SAH_2014]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	42	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2014_2	7	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
SAH_2023	6	6	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/.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
SAH_2022	3	3	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Mokany_2015	1	1	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
SAH_2014	1	1	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.