AusTraits

Telmatoblechnum indicum

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Family Blechnaceae

Taxonomy: Telmatoblechnum indicum (Burm.f.) Perrie, D.J.Ohlsen & Brownsey

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blechnopsis striata (R.Br.) C.Presl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Blechnum indicum Burm.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Blechnum striatum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blechnum serrulatum Rich. (pro parte misapplied)

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 (2), ABRS_2023 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kubiak_2009 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (8), NTH_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 66 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: Crowley_2007; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 204.58 mm (15-700 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.25 mm (4-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1); oblong (1); ovate (2); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): fern (5); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: 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]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • 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): 0.75 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023713Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023711N. 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/.
NTH_202379D. 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_201488B. 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.
WAH_2023_245Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kubiak_200934P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.