AusTraits

Chrysopogon benthamianus

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Chrysopogon benthamianus Henrard

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

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

Traits

Top source datasets: RBGK_2014 (1), Simpson_2021 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 4 traits from 4 records in 2 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
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.3 mg (4.3-4.3 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Simpson_202133K. J. Simpson, E. C. Jardine, S. Archibald, E. J. Forrestel, C. E. R. Lehmann, G. H. Thomas, and C. P. Osborne. “Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders”. New Phytologist 230 (2021), pp. 832-844. doi: 10.1111/nph.17069.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.