Schizaea bifida

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Family Schizaeaceae

Taxonomy: Schizaea bifida Willd.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acrostichum bifidum (Willd.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Schizaea asperula N.A.Wakef. (taxonomic synonym)

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

Schizaea dichotoma (L.) Sm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Cheal_2017 (4), Kubiak_2009 (3), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (6), NHNSW_2023 (8), NSWFRD_2014 (10), RBGV_2023 (8), SAH_2023 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (76). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 139 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 (8) [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): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3534.29 mm2 (3534.29-3534.29 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 186.67 mm (10-550 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.1 mm (0.6-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (3); crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (4) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (4) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	76	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NSWFRD_2014	10	10	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.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	4	8	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/.
RBGV_2023	6	8	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	6	7	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/.
NHNSW_2022	3	6	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	4	4	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.
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.
Kubiak_2009	2	3	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.