AusTraits

Pterostylis bryophila

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Pterostylis bryophila D.L.Jones

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Diplodium bryophilum (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pterostylis obtusa R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 20 records in 5 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 16 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_2710F. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202333J. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.