AusTraits

Agrostis joyceae

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Agrostis joyceae S.W.L.Jacobs

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agrostis sp. B (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Agrostis sp. aff. parviflora (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (6), GrassBase_2014 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (5), Osborne_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 38 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (3); erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_202366Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202355N. 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_202355VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
GrassBase_201412W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Osborne_201411C. Osborne, A. Salomaa, T. Kluyver, V. Visser, E. Kellogg, O. Morrone, M. Vorontsova, W. Clayton, and D. Simpson. “A global database of C4 photosynthesis in grasses”. New Phytologist 204 (2014), pp. 441-446. doi: 10.1111/nph.12942.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.