AusTraits

Centotheca lappacea

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cenchrus lappaceus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Centosteca lappacea Desv. (orthographic variant)
  • Centosteca lappacea var. biflora A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centotheca lappacea var. biflora Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), GrassBase_2014 (6), Kew_2019_5 (1), Metcalfe_2009 (14), Metcalfe_2020_2 (15), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 53 records in 10 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1245 mm2 (1050-1440 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (80-120 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
  • root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1); non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); epizoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): aboveground_clonal (1); belowground_clonal (1); stolon (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_21515D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
Metcalfe_20091414E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
eFLOWER_Dun_202247L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
GrassBase_201436W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
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.
ATRP_202022F. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.