Ptisana salicina

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Family Marattiaceae

Taxonomy: Ptisana salicina (Sm.) Murdock

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Marattia elegans Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Marattia fraxinea var. salicina Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Marattia salicina Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)

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

Marattia fraxinea Sm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 23 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 1307.5 mm (80-4000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (2); palmoid (1) [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): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	15	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.
SPRAT_2025_2	2	2	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.
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.