Schizaea dichotoma

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Family Schizaeaceae

Taxonomy: Schizaea dichotoma (L.) Sm.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acrostichum dichotomum L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Schizaea dichotoma (L.) Sm. var. dichotoma (nomenclatural synonym)
Schizaea dichotoma var. forsteri (Spreng.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Schizaea forsteri Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Brock_1993 (2), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (4), NSWFRD_2014 (7), NTH_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 70 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: Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; White_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 312.25 mm (39-610 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (3); scattered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (7); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.1-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	6	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.
NTH_2023	6	8	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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_2023	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.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Brock_1993	2	2	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.