Coelachne pulchella
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Coelachne pulchella R.Br.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Paspalum pulchellum (R.Br.) Raspail (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_2 (21), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 34 records in 6 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): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.6-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- 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): 39.9 mm2 (39.9-39.9 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_length (numerical): 19 mm (8-30 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): c3 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.2-0.2 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe_2020_2 | 18 | 21 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 3 | 5 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Osborne_2014 | 1 | 1 | C. 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |