Aira caryophyllea

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Aira caryophyllea L.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Agrostis caryophyllea (L.) Salisb. (nomenclatural synonym)
Aira caryophyllea L. subsp. caryophyllea (nomenclatural synonym)
Aira caryophyllea L. var. caryophyllea (nomenclatural synonym)
Avena caryophyllea (L.) Weber (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Cheal_2017 (7), Doherty_2021 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (5), NSWFRD_2014 (4), Pate_1998 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (6), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (5), Schmidt_1993 (1), Standish_2019 (8), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 77 records in 19 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): fire_killed (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Cheal_2017; Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014; Standish_2019]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (80-80 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convolute (1); involute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (6); herb (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (9); ephemeral (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
plant_succulence (categorical): not_succulent (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pate_1998; Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014; Standish_2019]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Doherty_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 22.3 mg/g (22.3-22.3 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.1 mg/g (2.1-2.1 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.91 {delta}[ppth] (-27.91--27.91 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.24 m (0.07-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Standish_2019	8	8	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Cheal_2017	7	7	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.
Pate_1998	7	7	J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
RBGV_2023	6	6	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
NHNSW_2023	5	5	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/.
SAH_2023	4	5	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	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.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	4	4	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.
SAH_2022	4	4	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/.
Doherty_2021	3	3	M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.