Chrysopogon aciculatus

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Chrysopogon aciculatus (Retz.) Trin.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Andropogon acicularis F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
Andropogon aciculatum Retz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Andropogon aciculatus Retz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Chrysopogon acicularis D.G.Williams (orthographic variant)
Chrysopogon aciculatus (Retz.) Trin. var. aciculatus (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhaphis aciculatus (Retz.) Honda (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_5 (1), Metcalfe_2020_2 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 35 records in 7 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); monoecious (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): 168 mm2 (168-168 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_length (numerical): 80 mm (10-150 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
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): prostrate (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2020_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): aboveground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.4-0.6 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_2	18	20	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	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	3	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.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.