Pterostylis longifolia

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Pterostylis longifolia R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bunochilus longifolius (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)
Oligochaetochilus longifolia Szlach. (nomenclatural synonym)
Oligochaetochilus longifolius (R.Br.) Szlach. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (3), Draper_2023 (3), Hughes_1992 (3), Kubiak_2009 (2), Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (7), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 74 records in 14 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 (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1); red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 125.66 mm2 (125.66-125.66 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (3); nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.48 m (0.1-0.9 m) [sources: Hughes_1992; Mokany_2015; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	21	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	8	10	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/.
SAH_2023	7	9	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/.
NSWFRD_2014	7	7	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_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
Cheal_2017	3	3	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.
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.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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/.
Kubiak_2009	2	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Mokany_2015	2	2	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.
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.