Cymbopogon procerus

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Cymbopogon procerus (R.Br.) Domin

Synonyms: 15 (APC 2026-07-30)

Andropogon exaltatus R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Andropogon exaltatus R.Br. var. exaltatus (taxonomic synonym)
Andropogon exaltatus var. genuinus Hack. (taxonomic synonym)
Andropogon procerus R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Andropogon procerus R.Br. var. procerus (nomenclatural synonym)
Andropogon procerus var. genuinus Hack. (taxonomic synonym)
Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) A.Camus (taxonomic synonym)
Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) Domin var. exaltatus (taxonomic synonym)
Cymbopogon exaltatus var. genuinus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Cymbopogon nardus subvar. procerus (R.Br.) Roberty (nomenclatural synonym)
Cymbopogon procerus (R.Br.) Domin var. procerus (nomenclatural synonym)
Cymbopogon procerus var. genuinus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Sorgum exaltatum (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Sorgum procerum (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Crowley_2007 (1), GrassBase_2014 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (3), NHNSW_2014 (1), Nano_2011 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Simpson_2021 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), 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 20 traits from 35 records in 15 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 375 mm (250-500 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (1) [sources: Lord_1997; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Simpson_2021; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): root_crown (1) [sources: Simpson_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.36 mg (0.36-0.36 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.55 m (1-2.2 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
GrassBase_2014	4	7	W. 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_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.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Simpson_2021	2	2	K. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.