AusTraits

Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum (Hochst. ex Steud.) Stapf

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Panicum hermaphroditum Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Panicum oxyphyllum Hochst. ex Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panicum pilipes Nees & Arn. ex Buse (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_1 (2), Metcalfe_2009 (15), Metcalfe_2020_2 (14), NHNSW_2014 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 51 records in 11 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): 690 mm2 (660-720 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (20-200 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 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 (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): mat-forming (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): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.49 mg (0.19-0.73 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_20091515E. 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.
Metcalfe_2020_21414D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202233L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
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.