Pterostylis pyramidalis

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Pterostylis pyramidalis Lindl.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diplodium pyramidalis (Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)
Linguella pyramidalis (Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterostylis nana var. pyramidalis (Lindl.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterostylis nana var. pyramidalis (Lindl.) Ewart, B.Rees & B.Wood (nomenclatural synonym)
Pterostylis sp. 'cauline leaves' (taxonomic synonym)
Pterostylis sp. cauline leaves (N.Gibson & M.N.Lyons 1490) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pterostylis nana R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (8), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Pekin_2011 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Tsakalos_2020 (18), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 69 records in 13 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 (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 16 mo (16-16 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 23.67 mm (8-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (9) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): orchid_mycorrhizal (3) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (2) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0 mg (0-0 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.24 m (0.1-0.35 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	17	18	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	5	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
WAH_2022_2	3	6	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Pekin_2011	5	5	B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
WAH_2023_2	2	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
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.