Bothriochloa pertusa
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A.Camus
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Andropogon pertusus (L.) Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Holcus pertusus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Metcalfe_2020_2 (21), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), 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 23 traits from 39 records in 9 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): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 393.75 mm2 (393.75-393.75 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_length (numerical): 175 mm (50-300 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (2.5-5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (1); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnynnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyynyyynn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): aboveground_clonal (1); stolon (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Metcalfe_2020_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.7 mg (0.7-0.7 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.1-0.7 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe_2020_2 | 19 | 21 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| 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/. |
| ATRP_2020 | 2 | 2 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 2 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |